Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

Howard S. Cohl, mathematician in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is Technical Editor for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. He has PhD's in mathematics and physics and has published over 60 papers on special functions, orthogonal polynomials, fundamental solutions for linear PDEs on Riemannian manifolds, and mathematical knowledge management.

Mourad E. H. Ismail, Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida, is an expert in special functions and approximation theory. He has made substantial contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and q-series. Ismail is an editor of several research journals and author and editor of seven books.