orthopoly documentation (was: Howto simplify Integral with jacobi polynomials)



On Sunday 13 July 2008, you wrote:
> >> Jacobi polynomials are a class of orthogonal polynomials
> >> obtained from hypergeometric series in cases where the series
> >> is in fact finite:
>
> Sorry, I meant to say "Jacobi polynomials as implemented in Maxima are
> ...". I thought I looked this up once in the Maxima docs and tracked down
> the A+S reference above. I didn't know about the errata though...

FYI, your first statement which you corrected has something to do with
"the characterization of hypergeometric series
 being also orthogonal polynomials"
this question resulted in the Askey-Scheme.

Perhaps, this could be a long term project:
"Implementing the Askey-Scheme in Maxima"

Regards
Andre