Jet Wimp Foncannon(b. Nov. 27, 1934) got his doctorate in 1968, from the University of Edinburgh, under the direction of the great analyst Arthur Erdélyi, after working for about seven years in the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missourri. Shortly after his PhD he joined Drexel University, retiring in 2001. He is now Professor Emeritus.
Professor Wimp authored many articles, and two books: "Sequence transformations and their applications" (1981) and "Computation with recurrence relations" (1984). He also wrote numerous book reviews. In addition he is a notable poet (e.g. here). Together with Ernst Robson they edited a pioneering anthology of mathematical poems, "Against Infinity" (see here).
He currently lives in Phildalephia, and also uses the name Jet Foncannon.
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Since the above is very sketchy, I asked Jet to write more words. Here is what he wrote:
Doron
So good to hear from you, and I’m glad to hear that you are still involved in teaching.
I retired 22 years ago, and no longer do much research, although I continue to stay aware of what is happening in mathematics. The project of your students sounds interesting and important.
I am happy to furnish some additional information. I was born in St. Louis MO November 27, 1934. I received the AB from Washington University in St. Louis, and then worked at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City for many years. I was mentored by the prolific and talented mathematician Yudell Luke, and it is there that my ability to do mathematics flowered. With Yudell's support, I enrolled as a graduate student under Arthur Erdelyi's supervision at the University of Edinburgh. After completing the program of study, I was awarded the PhD degree. Edinburgh University several years later also awarded me the DSc degree.
In 1970 I moved to Philadelphia to take a teaching job at Drexel University. I began to publish--- not quite as prolifically as Yudell had, but respectably. After seven years at Drexel, I was awarded the tile of Professor of Mathematics. One of the pleasures of teaching was meeting and becoming friends with mathematicians all over the world. Doron Zeilberger taught for awhile at Drexel, and our many conversations about world affairs and mathematics were occasionally joined by Doron's colleague? sidekick? menial? ally? crony? I'm not sure what word to use- Shalosh B. Ekhad. Looking back on those conversations, I must say that Ekhad contributed little to then besides obfuscation, although he had a delightful and irreverent sense of humor.
When I retired I legally changed my last name, which I hated, to Foncannon, the maiden name of my maternal grandmother- a name I have always loved. It has caused no end of confusion among my professional colleagues, and I think some of them believe that I have vanished from the face of the earth. I have not. To paraphrase my beloved fellow Missourian Mark Twain, "Rumors of my astral departure are greatly exaggerated."
In Philadelphia I continued my avocation of writing poetry, something that I had indulged in since college. I published frequently in literary quarterlies and issued several chapbooks of poetry, Poetry allowed me to express concerns about the world beyond mathematics, although a number of my poems deal with mathematical concepts.