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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• 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 Australian National University




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, archived from the original on July 3, 2013




See also


Level-index arithmetic (LI)
Peter J. Olver (Son of Frank Olver)




References



Wong, R. K., ed. (1990), Asymptotic and computational analysis. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in honor of Frank W. J. Olver's 65th birthday, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 124, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 978-0-8247-8347-1, MR 1052426




External links


Frank W. J. Olver, 1924-2013. SIAM News obituary by Roderick Wong
Frank W. J. Olver, mathematician, an obituary in The Washington Post
Home page Archived May 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine of Frank W. J. Olver
Frank W. J. Olver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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