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unusual facts about Askey–Wilson beta integral



Anthea Askey

Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, London, to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash (b. 1899, m. 1925, d. 1974).

Back-Room Boy

Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips.

Band Waggon

A show of the same name and starring Askey and Murdoch with Tommy Trinder was playing at the London Palladium when World War II broke out.

Bees in Paradise

Askey records in his autobiography that whilst filming the crew was strafed by the Luftwaffe and he was slightly injured as a result.

James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

Mourad Ismail

Mourad E. H. Ismail (born April 27, 1944, in Cairo, Egypt) is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials who introduced Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials, Chihara-Ismail polynomials and Rogers–Askey–Ismail polynomials.

Richard Askey

The Askey–Wilson polynomials (introduced by him in 1984 together with James A. Wilson) are on the top level of the (q)-Askey scheme, which organizes orthogonal polynomials of (q-)hypergeometric type into a hierarchy.

Terminal Power Company

Askey was quickly introduced to the band's material and after a short period of rehearsal and gigging the band entered the studio to record their second album, Red Skin Eclipse.

The Arthur Askey Show

The Arthur Askey Show was a short-lived black-and-white British sitcom starring Arthur Askey that ran for six episodes in 1961.

The Supremes at the Copa

Berry Gordy and Motown's head engineer Lawrence Horn are credited as the producers, and the orchestra was arranged and conducted by Gil Askey.


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