Encyclopedia of Special Functions: The Askey-Bateman Project

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Tom H. Koornwinder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. He is an expert in special functions orthogonal polynomials and Lie theory. He introduced the five-parameter extension of the BC-type Macdonald polynomials which are nowadays called Koornwinder polynomials. He was co-author of the chapter on orthogonal polynomials in the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and is involved in its revision. Jasper V. Stokman is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He is an expert in special functions Lie theory and integrable systems. He introduced BC-type extensions of several families of classical orthogonal polynomials and nonpolynomial generalizations of Koornwinder polynomials. He linked multivariable special functions to harmonic analysis on quantum groups and Hecke algebras and to statistical mechanics and analytic number theory.