Theodore Seio Chihara (born 1929) is an American mathematician working on
orthogonal polynomials
In mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal
In mathematics, orthogonality (mathematics), orthogonality is the generalization of the geom ...
who introduced
Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials,
Brenke–Chihara polynomials, and
Chihara–Ismail polynomials. His brother is composer
Paul Chihara
Paul Seiko Chihara (born July 9, 1938) is an American composer.
Life and career
Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent three years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idah ...
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1929 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians