Richard Askey

Richard Allen Askey ( born June 4, 1933, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American mathematician who deals with analysis.

Askey studied at Washington University (Bachelor 1953), Harvard University ( master's degree 1956) and Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in 1961 at Salomon Bochner (Mean Convergence of Orthogonal Series and Conjugate Series). After that, he was from 1958 to 1961 Instructor at Washington University, from 1961 to 1963 at the University of Chicago and in 1963 assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, where he received a full professorship in 1968 and since 2003 is Professor Emeritus.

Askey mainly dealt with particular functions (introduction of the Askey -Wilson polynomials with James A. Wilson) and publication of the Notebooks of Ramanujan (a very large project, among others, Bruce Berndt, which should also complement the missing evidence in Ramanujan ). He is also interested in mathematics education.

From 1969 to 1970 he was Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• With George Andrews, Ranjan Roy: Special functions, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-62321-9 (English; series Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 71)