Waleed Al-Salam

Waleed Al-Salam (born 15 July 1926 in Baghdad, Iraq – died 14 April 1996 in Edmonton, Canada) was a mathematician who introduced Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials, Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials, q-Konhauser polynomials, and Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials. He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta.

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. He completed his education at Duke, receiving his Ph.D. for his dissertation on Bessel polynomials (1958).^[1]

• Chihara, Theodore Seio; Ismail, Mourad E. H. (1998), "In memoriam: Waleed Al-Salam (July 15, 1926–April 13, 1996)", Journal of Approximation Theory, 95 (2): 153–160, doi:10.1006/jath.1998.3301, ISSN 0021-9045, MR 1652868
• Ismail, Mourad E. H. (1999), "Waleed Al-Salam, 1926–1996", in Diejen, Jan Felipe van; Vinet, Luc (eds.), Algebraic methods and q-special functions. Proceedings of the workshop dedicated to the memory of Waleed Al-Salam held at the Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, May 21–26, 1996, CRM Proc. Lecture Notes, vol. 22, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. ix–xi, ISBN 978-0-8218-2026-1, MR 1726825

• Waleed Al-Salam 1926-1996
• Waleed Al-Salam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project