Wilfrid Norman Bailey
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Wilfrid Norman Bailey was a mathematician who introduced Bailey's lemma and Bailey pair
s into the theory of basic hypergeometric series
. Bailey chains and Bailey transforms are named after him.
Bailey pair
In mathematics, a Bailey pair is a pair of sequences satisfying certain relations, and a Bailey chain is a sequence of Bailey pairs. Bailey pairs were introduced by while studying...
s into the theory of basic hypergeometric series
Basic hypergeometric series
In mathematics, Heine's basic hypergeometric series, or hypergeometric q-series, are q-analog generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series....
. Bailey chains and Bailey transforms are named after him.