Arthur Erdélyi

Arthur Erdélyi
Born2 October 1908
Budapest
Died12 December 1977 (1977-12-13) (aged 69)
Edinburgh
NationalityHungarian
CitizenshipBritish
Known forspecial functions, asymptotic analysis, fractional integration, partial differential equations
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh, Caltech

Arthur Erdélyi FRS, 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.

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