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F. H. Jackson

The Reverend Frank Hilton Jackson was an English clergyman and mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He introduced several q-analogs such as the Jackson–Bessel functions, the Jackson-Hahn-Cigler q-addition, the Jackson derivative, and the Jackson integral.

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The Reverend Frank Hilton Jackson (16 August 1870 in Hull, England – 27 April 1960) was an English clergyman and mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He introduced several q-analogs such as the Jackson–Bessel functions, the Jackson-Hahn-Cigler q-addition, the Jackson derivative, and the Jackson integral.

Further reading

Further reading

  • Ernst, T. (2012). A Comprehensive Treatment of q-Calculus. Springer Science & Business Media.
  • Gasper, G., Rahman, M.(2004). Basic Hypergeometric Series. Cambridge University Press.
References

References

Selected papers

  • Jackson, F. H. (1917). The q {\displaystyle q} -integral analogous to Borel's integral. Messenger Math, 47, 57–64.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1921). Summation of q {\displaystyle q} -hypergeometric series. Messenger of Math, 57, 101–112.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1928). Examples of a generalization of Euler's transformation for power series. Messenger Math, 57, 169–187.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1940). The q θ {\displaystyle q^{\theta }} equations whose solutions are products of solutions of q θ {\displaystyle q^{\theta }} equations of lower order. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, (1), 1–17.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1941). Certain q {\displaystyle q} -identities. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, (1), 167–172.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1942). On basic double hypergeometric functions. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, (1), 69–82.
  • Jackson, F. H. (1944). Basic double hypergeometric functions (II). The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, (1), 49–61.