TY - JOUR
AU1 - Colton, David
AB - ARTHUR ERDELYI 1908-1977 ARTHUR ERDELYI DAVID COLTON Professor Arthur Erdelyi, F.R.S.E., F.R.S., died suddenly at his home in Edin- burgh on December 12, 1977, at the age of 69. His academic life was spent at both the University of Edinburgh and the California Institute of Technology, although the stronger claim on him is perhaps that of Edinburgh where he arrived as a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1939 and to which he returned in 1964 after sixteen years at Caltech. His greatest contributions to knowledge were in the area of asymptotic analysis and special functions, although he also made major contributions in many other fields, in particular generalized functions, singular perturbations, fractional integration, and the analytic theory of partial differential equations. His breadth of mathematical knowledge was extraordinary, ranging over the entire spectrum of pure and applied mathematics. This wide range of interest was reflected in his distinc- tion as a teacher, and his students now occupy academic posts throughout North America and Great Britain. He was a man of great wisdom and broad vision, and his influence will live on in his published work as well as in the minds of innumerable friends and colleagues throughout the world. For 
TI - Arthur Erdélyi
JF - Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
DO - 10.1112/blms/11.2.191
DA - 1979-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/arthur-erd-lyi-v3i7WlRYHd
SP - 191
EP - 207
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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