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Frank W. J. Olver
Frank W. J. Olver is Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. He is also the Mathematics Editor for the DLMF project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and was the author of the chapter on Bessel Functions of Integer Order in the original Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.
Olver has published numerous papers in Asymptotics, Numerical Analysis, and Special Functions, most of which have been reprinted in Selected Papers of F. W. J. Olver, Parts I and II (R. Wong, ed.), World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics, v. 7, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2000. His well-known book Asymptotics and Special Functions, originally published by Academic Press in 1974, was reprinted in the AKP Classics series by AK Peters, Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1997.
Olver is author or coauthor of the following DLMF chapters