This section of OP-SF WEB is intended to provide on-line information on significant contributors to Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions. A rich source of initial information can be found in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at St. Andrews University. In particular consult their full alphabetical index and their search form. A quick scan revealed the names of
Airy, Akhiezer, Appell, Bateman, Bell, Bessel, Catalan, Chebyshev, Chandrasekhar, Coulomb, Dixon, Erdélyi, Euler, Fibonacci, Gauss, Gegenbauer, Henrici, Jacobi, Kummer, Laguerre, Legendre, Lerch, Mascheroni, Padé, Pfaff, Ramanujan, Stieltjes, Sturm, Szegö, Ulam, Vandermonde, Whittaker.
Many further names relevant to our field can probably be found there.
See the Personal, Obituaries, etc. Section
of
OP-SF WEB for obituaries and some
biographical information on recently-deceased contributors to areas
related to orthogonal polynomials and special functions.
Below we give some links to historical information elsewhere on the Web.
Readers are invited to provide further
information and to
inform us of other links
that should be provided.
