Topic #14  ----------------  OP-SF NET  ----------------- July 13, 1995
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From: OP-SF Net Editor 
Subject: Memorial note about Joe Gillis in Math. Intelligencer

The Mathematical Intelligencer 17 No. 2 (Spring 1995) contains at p.65
an article by Doron Zeilberger entitled "How Joe Gillis discovered
combinatorial special function theory". Joe Gillis died on November
19, 1993 at the age of 82 years. Zeilberger writes that Gillis had a
great influence on his mathematical development. According to
Zeilberger, the 1976 paper by Even and Gillis on Derangements and
Laguerre polynomials is the first time that a connection between
combinatorics and classical special functions was observed.