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This entry contributed by Michel Barran
Hungarian-British mathematician born in Budapest and educated at Brno and Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was forced to
emigrate to escape the Nazi regime, and received a Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 1940. He was professor at the
California Institute of Technology (1949-1964), then returned to Edinburgh in 1964 where he remained as professor of
mathematics until his death.
In the 1950s, he supervised the editing and publication of the famous Bateman manuscripts together with F. G. Tricomi
(University of Turin), W. Magnus (University of Göttingen), and F. Oberhettinger (University of Mainz). The result of
their labors is the magnificent three-volume work on special functions entitled Higher Transcendental Functions.
 Bateman
Erdélyi, A. Asymptotic Expansions. New York: Dover, 1987.
Erdélyi, A. Operational Calculus and Generalized Functions. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962.
Erdélyi, A.; Oberhettinger, M. F.; and Tricomi, F. G.
Tables of Integral Transforms. Based, in Part, on Notes Left by Harry Bateman and Compiled by the Staff of the Bateman Manuscript Project, 2 vols.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954.
Erdélyi, A.; Magnus, W.; Oberhettinger, F.; and Tricomi, F. G. Higher Transcendental Functions, Vol. 1. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1981.
Erdélyi, A.; Magnus, W.; Oberhettinger, F.; and Tricomi, F. G. Higher Transcendental Functions, Vol. 2. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1981.
Erdélyi, A.; Magnus, W.; Oberhettinger, F.; and Tricomi, F. G. Higher Transcendental Functions, Vol. 3. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1981.
© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
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