Waleed Al-Salam (born 15 July 1926 in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

– died 14 April 1996 in

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) was a mathematician who introduced

Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials In mathematics, the Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials ''Q'n''(''x'';''a'',''b'';''q'') are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of the properties of Al-Salam–Chi ...

Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials In mathematics, Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials ''U''(''x'';''q'') and ''V''(''x'';''q'') are two families of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of their properties. Definit ...

, q-Konhauser polynomials, and Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials. He was a

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at the

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. Born in Iraq, Baghdad, Al-Salam received his bachelor's degree in engineering physics (1950) and M.A. in mathematics (1951) from

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

. He completed his education at

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, receiving his Ph.D. for his dissertation on

Bessel polynomials In mathematics, the Bessel polynomials are an orthogonal sequence of polynomials. There are a number of different but closely related definitions. The definition favored by mathematicians is given by the series :y_n(x)=\sum_^n\frac\,\left(\frac ...

(1958).

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Waleed Al-Salam 1926-1996
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Salam, Waleed Al- 1926 births 1996 deaths Iraqi mathematicians 20th-century mathematicians University of California, Berkeley alumni Duke University alumni Iraqi expatriates in the United States Iraqi expatriates in Canada Academic staff of the University of Alberta