Arthur Erdélyi
| Arthur Erdélyi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 October 1908 Budapest |
| Died |
12 December 1977 Edinburgh |
| Citizenship | British |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh, CalTech |
| Known for | special functions, asymptotic analysis, fractional integration, partial differential equations |
Prof Arthur Erdélyi FRS,[1] FRSE (2 October 1908 – 12 December 1977) was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions, particularly orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions.[2][3]
Biography
He died in Edinburgh.[4]
Awards
Erdélyi received several honours, including being elected to the Royal Society as a Fellow in 1975.[1]
References
- 1 2 Jones, D. S. (1979). "Arthur Erdelyi. 2 October 1908-12 December 1977". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 25: 266. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1979.0009.
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Arthur Erdélyi", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- ↑ Arthur Erdélyi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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