Richard Askey
American mathematician known for his expertise in the area of special functions (1933-2019) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
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.
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2019Died9 October 20192013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2009Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAward1999Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United StatesAward1993Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward1969Guggenheim FellowshipAward1933Born4 June 1933
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The Askey-Gasper inequality for Jacobi polynomials is essential in de Brange's famous proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.
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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1933 to 2019 · aged 86
