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 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: Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

1996: Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

2011: Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce

Publications

See also

• Level-index arithmetic (LI)

References

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 of Frank W. J. Olver
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions