Mourad Ismail, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mourad Ismail

American mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials and special functions

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1944

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States, Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Mourad Ismail

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  • Ismail (born April 27, 1944, in Cairo, Egypt) is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials and special functions. Ismail received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University.
  • He holds Masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Alberta.
  • He worked at and visited several universities.
  • Currently he holds a research professorship at the University of Central Florida and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Ismail is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Physics.
  • He is among the ISI highly cited scientists.
  • He served on the editorial boards of several journals including Constructive Approximation, Journal of Approximation Theory, Journal of Physics A, and The Ramanujan Journal.
  • He published over 290 research articles, one book and edited several books. Most of Ismail's work is joint with other mathematicians and physicists and some of his papers are interdisciplinary.
  • Mourad Ismail works in the area of special functions, orthogonal polynomials and their applications.
  • His research also touches upon approximation theory and continued fractions.
  • He worked on infinite divisibility problems in probability that led to questions about monotonicity properties of special functions.
  • He also worked on monotonicity and inequalities for zeros of orthogonal polynomials.
  • He made several contributions to the asymptotic theory of orthogonal polynomials.
  • He also studied moment problems and found the orthogonality measure for several orthogonal polynomials.
  • This includes the q-ultraspherical polynomials (also known as the Askey–Ismail or Rogers–Askey–Ismail polynomials), the random walk polynomials (also known as the Askey–Ismail polynomials), the Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials, and the Chihara–Ismail polynomials.
  • Ismail also worked on q-series and Rogers–Ramanujan identities.
  • Ismail is also interested in the combinatorial theory of orthogonal polynomials and their linearization coefficients.

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