# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-askey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:34.662Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-askey"
name: "Richard Askey"
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description: "Richard Allen Askey was an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey–Wilson polynomials are on the top level of the Askey scheme, which organizes orthogonal polynomials of hypergeometric type into a hierarchy. The Askey–Gasper inequality for Jacobi polynomials is essential in de Brange's famous proof of the Bieberbach conjecture."
tagline: "American mathematician known for his expertise in the area of special functions (1933–2019)"
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birthDate: "1933-06-04"
deathDate: "2019-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump