2026 Richard Askey: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	51	1010	468	214	12372

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the theory of special functions.
1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard Askey was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic work spanned various aspects of mathematics, contributing notably to the theory of special functions.

Throughout their career, they received multiple recognitions including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and fellowship status in prominent scientific societies. These honors included becoming a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, a SIAM Fellow in 2009 specifically for contributions to the theory of special functions, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1969.

Best Publications

Some Basic Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials That Generalize Jacobi Polynomials

Richard Askey;James Arthur Wilson

1717
Citations
Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

Richard Askey

1097
Citations
Pi and the AGM

Richard Askey;Jonathan M. Borwein;Peter B. Borwein

700
Citations
Classical orthogonal polynomials

George E. Andrews;Richard Askey

427
Citations
The q-Gamma and q-Beta Functions†

Richard Askey

342
Citations
Recurrence Relations, Continued Fractions, and Orthogonal Polynomials

Richard Askey;Mourad Ismail

341
Citations
A Set of Orthogonal Polynomials That Generalize the Racah Coefficients or 6 - j Symbols.

Richard Askey;James Wilson

321
Citations
Mean convergence of expansions in Laguerre and Hermite series

Richard Askey;Stephen Wainger

302
Citations
A generalization of ultraspherical polynomials

Richard Askey;Richard Askey;Mourad E.-H. Ismail;Mourad E.-H. Ismail

290
Citations
Ramanujan's Extensions of the Gamma and Beta Functions

Richard Askey

212
Citations
Some Basic Hypergeometric Extensions of Integrals of Selberg and Andrews

Richard Askey

181
Citations
Enumeration of Partitions: The Role of Eulerian Series and q-Orthogonal Polynomials

George E. Andrews;George E. Andrews;Richard Askey;Richard Askey

162
Citations
Associated Laguerre and Hermite polynomials

Richard Askey;Jet Wimp

159
Citations
INTEGRAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR JACOBI POLYNOMIALS AND SOME APPLICATIONS.

Richard Askey;Richard Askey;James Fitch;James Fitch

158
Citations
Special Functions: Group Theoretical Aspects and Applications

Richard Askey;T. H. Koornwinder;Walter Schempp

152
Citations
A CONVOLUTION STRUCTURE FOR JACOBI SERIES.

Richard Askey;Stephen Wainger

139
Citations
Continuous Hahn polynomials

Richard Askey

115
Citations
A Century of mathematics in America.

Richard Askey;Peter L. Duren;Uta C. Merzbach;Harold M Edwards

111
Citations
Radial Characteristics Functions.

Richard Askey

110
Citations
Sieved ultraspherical polynomials

Waleed Al-Salam;W. R. Allaway;Richard Askey

108
Citations
CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS From Approximation Theory to Algebra and Number Theory

Unknown

52
Citations
Book reviewAn introduction to orthogonal polynomials: T. S. Chihara, Gordon & Breach, New York/ London/Paris, 1978, 249 pp

Richard Askey

45
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George E. Andrews Pennsylvania State University

Mourad E. H. Ismail University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Stephen Wainger University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tom H. Koornwinder University of Amsterdam

Samuel Karlin Stanford University

Peter Duren University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Mark Kac Rockefeller University

Peter Borwein Simon Fraser University

Jonathan M. Borwein University of Newcastle Australia

N. H. Bingham Imperial College London

External Links

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