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Howard S. Cohl

Howard S. Cohl (b. 1968 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a Mathematician in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He is the Technical Editor for the DLMF project.

He obtained a B.S. in astronomy and astrophysics from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, a M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Cohl publishes primarily in the field of orthogonal polynomials and special functions. His research interests include fundamental solutions of linear partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds, associated Legendre and Jacobi functions, generalized and basic hypergeometric functions, eigenfunction expansions in separable coordinate systems, generating functions, $q$-series, and orthogonal polynomials in the Askey and $q$-Askey schemes. Howard is the project leader for the NIST Digital Repository of Mathematical Formulae seeding and development project. In this role, he has been exploring mathematical knowledge management and the digital representation of largely unambiguous, context-free semantic information for mathematical formulae.