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Celebratio Mathematica

Richard Allen Askey

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Other Resources

  • Video: Richard As­key lec­tur­ing on “Some uses of or­tho­gon­al poly­no­mi­als” (re­cord­ing by Mi­crosoft Re­search).
  • Re­cor­ded in­ter­view (2006) with Richard As­key by Bob Lange: “In his three Oc­to­ber 2006 in­ter­views with Bob Lange, Richard As­key, Pro­fess­or Emer­it­us in Math­em­at­ics, offered stor­ies and memor­ies about his time on cam­pus. He spoke about the time peri­od from the 1940s through the 2000s and dis­cussed the fol­low­ing top­ics: Fam­ily back­ground; Edu­ca­tion in math­em­at­ics; Wash­ing­ton Uni­versity; Gradu­ate study; Bell Labs; Teach­ing; Hir­ing by UW; Math de­part­ment; Re­search; Com­mit­tee ser­vice; TA strike and cam­pus protest; Fac­ulty Sen­ate; Courses; Note­books of Ramanu­jan; Math­em­at­ics edu­ca­tion; New Math; “Math Wars”; and Gradu­ate stu­dents. This in­ter­view was con­duc­ted for in­clu­sion in the UW-Madis­on Archives’ or­al his­tory col­lec­tion as one of its cam­pus life his­tor­ies.”