Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones,… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
