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René F. Swarttouw
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René Swarttouw (b. 1964 in The Hague, The Netherlands) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Swarttouw is mainly a teacher of mathematics and has published a few papers on special functions and orthogonal polynomials. He is coauthor of the book Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials and Their -Analogues) Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials and Their -Analogues.
Swarttouw is coauthor of the following DLMF Chapter
Swarttouw served as a Validator for the original release and publication in May 2010 of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.