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William P. Reinhardt
William P. Reinhardt is Professor of Chemistry, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the Associate Editor for Chemistry for the DLMF project, and a frequent visitor to the NIST Physics Laboratory in Gaithersburg.
Reinhardt is a theoretical chemist and atomic physicist, who has recently carried out research on non-linear dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates which served to motivate his interest in elliptic functions; older work on the atomic Coulomb problem led to the discovery of new classes of orthogonal polynomials, and new uses of old ones; and, to his original ownership of a 1964 printing of the original AMS 55 NBS Handbook. He firmly believes that the Mandelbrot set is a special function, and notes with interest that the natural boundaries of analyticity of many “more normal” special functions are fractals.
Reinhardt is coauthor of the following DLMF chapters