Richard Bruce Paris

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Richard Bruce Paris
Born	(1946-01-23)January 23, 1946 Bradford, UK
Died	July 8, 2022(2022-07-08) (aged 76) Dundee, Scottland
Nationality	U.S.
Alma mater	University of London
Known for	editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
Awards	Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Richard Bruce Paris (* 23. Januar 1946 in Bradford; † 8. Juli 2022) was a Scottish mathematician who specialized in calculus. His research activity particularly concerned the asymptotics of integrals and properties of special functions.

Publications

• with A. D. Wood: Asymptotics of Higher Order Differential Equations, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1986, ISBN 0-470-20375-7
• with D. Kaminski: Asymptotics and Mellin-Barnes Integrals, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-521-79001-7 (vol. 85 of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
• Hadamard Expansions and Hypergeometric Evaluation - An Extension of the Method of Steepest Descent, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-00258-6 (vol. 141 of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
• with F. W. J. Olver, R. Askey et al.: NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback ISBN 978-0-521-19225-5, Paperback ISBN 978-0-521-14063-8

See also

• Publications by Richard Bruce Paris at ResearchGate