Frank W. J. Olver
| Frank William John Olver | |
|---|---|
 Frank W. J. Olver, 2001 | |
| Born |
December 15, 1924 Croydon, UK |
| Died |
April 23, 2013 (aged 88) Rockville, Maryland, U.S. |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Doctoral students | Daniel W. Lozier |
| Known for | editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions |
| Notable awards | Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce |
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
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, June 1989, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 124, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 978-0-8247-8347-1, MR 1052426
External links
- Frank W. J. Olver. SIAM News obituary by Roderick Wong
- Frank W. J. Olver, mathematician, an obituary in The Washington Post
- Home page of Frank W. J. Olver
- Frank W. J. Olver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions