Professor Richard A. Askey

Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 263-7901
(608) 263-3053

PERSONAL HOME PAGE

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1961 M.A. Harvard University, 1956
B.A. Washington University, 1955

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:

Special Functions
Srinivasa Ramanujan

EMPLOYMENT

INVITED ADDRESSES TO MATHEMATICAL SOCIETIES:

SERIES OF LECTURES:

Budapest, Turán Memorial Lectures, 1992
Pennsylvania State University:
Mathematics Department, College of Science Lectures, 1984
University of Illinois, Mathematics Department, Trjitzinsky Lectures, 1984
Regional Conference Lectures, 1974

INVITED LECTURES AT SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Essays on Mathematics Education

Good Intentions are not Enough

Assessment

RESEARCH GRANTS:

National Science Foundation, 1963-
Office of Naval Research, 1969-1970

PH.D. STUDENTS Carl Ganser, 1965
James Fitch, 1968
Cris Roosenraad, 1969
Susan Schindler, 1969
Robert Horton, 1973
Melinda Certain, 1974
Dennis Stanton, 1977
James Wilson, 1978
Daniel Moak, 1979
Walter Morris, 1982
Ismor Fischer, 1989
Warren Johnson, 1993
Shaun Cooper, 1995

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