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Frank W. J. Olver
mathematician
- December 15, 1924
- April 23, 2013
- 88 years
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Frank W. J. Olver, 88, British–born American mathematician.
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|Frank William John Olver (December 15, 1924 – April 23, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland who worked on asymptotic analysis, special functions, and numerical analysis. He was the editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
Awards
1969: Silver Medal of the US Department of Commerce
1974: Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
1996: Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
2011: Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce
Publications
- Olver, Frank W. J. (1997) [1974], Asymptotics and special functions, AKP Classics, Wellesley, MA: A K Peters Ltd., ISBN 978-1-56881-069-0, MR 1429619
- Olver, Frank W. J. (2000), Selected papers of F. W. J. Olver. Part I, II, World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics, vol. 7, River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., ISBN 978-981-02-4106-3, MR 1759688
- Olver, Frank W. J.; Lozier, Daniel W.; Boisvert, Ronald F.; et al., eds. (2010), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-19225-5, MR 2723248
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