George Gasper
mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials and basic hypergeometric series
George Gasper is a mathematician at Northwestern University working on special functions, especially orthogonal polynomials and basic hypergeometric series, who introduced the Askey–Gasper inequality.
Publications
Gasper, George; Rahman, Mizan (2004), Basic hypergeometric series, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol.
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