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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• Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - Full Biography

• 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 [Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry]
  Wyman G. Fair [Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry]
  Jerry Leon Fields [Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry]

• 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 Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry
  • 1982 Russell Euler Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry

• 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

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