Mathematician:Yudell Leo Luke

Mathematician

American mathematician who worked in many areas including aeronautics and approximation theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 26 June 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
• Died: 6 May 1983 in Moscow, Russia

Publications

• 1969: The Special Functions and Their Approximations: v. 1
• 1969: The Special Functions and Their Approximations: v. 2
• 1972: Cumulative Index to Mathematics of Computation 1943–1969
• 1977: Algorithms for the Computation of Mathematical Functions

Contributor to:

• 1964: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Yudell Leo Luke": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive