Lucy Joan Slater

Lucy Joan Slater (died 2008) was a mathematician who worked on hypergeometric functions, and who found many generalizations of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. In the early 1950s she played a leading role at Cambridge University in devising a precursor of modern computer operating systems, and subsequently she helped to develop computer programs for econometrics, working for much of the time with UK government officials.

In retirement she devoted much of her time to genealogy.

Her (unpublished) memoirs include descriptions of life as a teenager in Portsmouth during the bombing of the Second World War, and of working with early computers at Cambridge.

Publications

• Abramowitz, Milton; Stegun, Irene A., eds. (1965), 503.htm "Chapter 13 Confluent hypergeometric functions", Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, New York: Dover, pp. 503, ISBN 978-0486612720, MR0167642, http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/page_ 503.htm .
• Slater, Lucy Joan (1960), Confluent hypergeometric functions, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, MR0107026 
• Slater, Lucy Joan (1966), Generalized hypergeometric functions, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-06483-X, MR0201688  (there is a 2008 paperback with ISBN 978-0-521-09061-2)
• Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1967
• First steps in basic Fortran, London: Chapman & Hall, 1971
• More Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1972
• GEM: a general econometric matrix program, Cambridge University Press, 1976
• Dynamic regression: theory and algorithms (co-author with M. H. Pesaran), Halsted Press, 1980

References

• Lucy Joan Slater at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.