Frank W. J. Olver

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

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

• Olver, Frank W. J. (1997) [1974], Asymptotics and special functions, AKP Classics, Wellesley, MA: A K Peters Ltd.,
  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.,
  MR 1759688
• Olver, Frank W. J.; Lozier, Daniel W.; Boisvert, Ronald F.; et al., eds. (2010), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press,
  MR 2723248, archived from the original
  on July 3, 2013

• 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.,
  MR 1052426

• 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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