Frank W J Olver

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Nationality U.S. Education University of London Alma mater University of London		Fields Mathematics Name Frank J.

Born December 15, 1924Croydon, UK ( 1924-12-15 ) Institutions University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology Known for editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Notable awards Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce Died April 23, 2013, Rockville, Maryland, United States Books Asymptotics and Special F, Introduction to Asymptoti, Selected Papers of FWJ Olv
Doctoral students Daniel W. Lozier Residence United States of America

Frank William John Olver (December 15, 1924 – April 23, 2013) was an emeritus 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• A Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

1996• A Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

2011• Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce.

Visiting Fellow, or Professor, at the University of Lancaster, U.K., Imperial College, London University, U.K., Cambridge University, U.K., the Royal Irish Academy, and the National University of Australia

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, 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, archived from the original on 2013-07-03

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