Frank W. J. Olver

Frank William John Olver was a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland who worked on asymptotic analysis, special functions, and numerical analysis. He was the editor in chief of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.

Awards

1969: Silver Medal of the US Department of Commerce
1974: Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
1996: Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
2011: Gold Medal of the US Department of Commerce