If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you stil…

- Richard Askey

Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step one…

- Richard Askey

When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard,…

- Richard Askey

Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series …

- Richard Askey

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples …

- Richard Askey