Yudell L. Luke
Fulltime:
1955-1957, 1961-1983
M.A. 1940, Mathematics, University of Illinois
B.A. 1939, Mathematics, University of Illinois
A.A. 1937, Mathematics, Kansas City Junior College
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Midwest Research Institute (now
MRI Global
):
1946-1961 Head of Mathematical Analysis Section
1961-1971 Senior Advisor in Mathematics
Senior Research Students while at MRI:
Jet Wimp [
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]
Wyman G. Fair
[
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]
Jerry Leon Fields [
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]
Started the
SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program:
Visiting Lecturer 1960-61, 1964-65, 1975-76
1975:
Won the UMKC N. T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity
March 30-31, 1979:
Mathematical Association of America - Missouri Section Annual Meeting at UMKC
Organized by: Yudell L. Luke
1978-1983:
University of Missouri System Curators' Professor - Mathematics
Ph.D. Students at UMKC:
1979
Bing-Yuan Ting
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1982
Russell Euler
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Master's (thesis option) Students at UMKC (through 1962)
1961
Clyde D. Rinker
1962
Joseph F. Nemecek
Books:
1962,
Integrals of Bessel Functions
1969,
The Special Functions and Their Approximations
1975,
Mathematical Functions and Their Approximation
1977,
Algorithms for the Computation of Mathematical Functions