Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gradshteyn and Ryzhik" in English language version.
3.381.3, 3.411.6, 3.721.3, 3.761.2, 3.761.9, 3.897.1, 6.561.13, 8.350.2
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[…] In 1936 Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik had a book entitled Special Functions published by the United Moscow-Leningrad Scientific-Technical Publisher. Ryzhik died in 1941, either during the siege of Leningrad, or fighting on the Russian front. In 1943, a table of formulas was published under Ryzhik's name by the Governmental Moscow-Leningrad Technical-Theoretical Publisher. The only thing the book seems to say about its origins is that it's responding to the shortage of books of formulas. It says that some integrals marked in it are original, but the others mostly come from three books—a French one from 1858, a German one from 1894, and an American one from 1922. It explains that effort went into the ordering of the integrals, and that some are simplified by using a new special function s equal to Gamma[x+y-1]/(Gamma[x]Gamma[y]). It then thanks three fairly prominent mathematicians from Moscow University. That's basically all we know about Ryzhik. […] Israil Solomonovitch Gradshteyn was born in 1899 in Odessa, and became a professor of mathematics at Moscow State University. But in 1948, he was fired as part of the Soviet attack on Jewish academics. To make money, he wanted to write a book. And so he decided to build on Ryzhik's tables. Apparently he never met Ryzhik. But he created a new edition, and by the third edition, the book was known as Gradshteyn-Ryzhik. […] Gradshteyn died of natural causes in Moscow in 1958. Though somehow there developed an urban legend that one of the authors of Gradshteyn-Ryzhik had been shot as a piece of anti-Semitism on the grounds that an error in their tables had caused an airplane crash. […] Meanwhile, starting around 1953, Yurii Geronimus, who had met Gradshteyn at Moscow State University, began helping with the editing of the tables, and actually added the appendices on special functions. Later on, several more people were involved. And when the tables were published in the West, there were arguments about royalties. But Geronimus [in 2005 was] still alive and well and living in Jerusalem, and Oleg phoned him […]
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (NB. This paper discusses 19 GR entries: 1.14.2.1, 1.320, 2.18.1.9, 3.753.2, 3.771.8, 6.611, 7.341.1, 7.341.2, 7.342, 7.343.1, 7.344.1, 7.344.2, 7.346, 7.348, 7.349, 7.355.1, 7.355.2, 8.411.1, 8.921. [27]){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (NB. This paper discusses 51 GR entries: 1.320.1, 1.320.3, 1.320.5, 1.320.7, 2.01.5, 2.01.6, 2.01.7, 2.01.8, 2.01.9, 2.01.10, 2.01.11, 2.01.12, 2.01.13, 2.01.14, 2.513.1, 2.513.2, 2.513.3, 2.513.4, 3.231.5, 3.274.2, 3.541.8, 3.611.3, 3.621.3, 3.621.4, 3.624.6, 3.631.16, 3.661.3, 3.661.4, 3.675.1, 3.675.2, 3.688.1, 3.721.1, 3.747.7, 3.761.4, 4.381.1, 4.381.2, 4.381.3, 4.381.4, 4.521.1, 6.671.7, 6.671.8, 7.244.1, 7.244.2, 7.531.1, 7.531.2, 8.230.1, 8.230.2, 8.361.7, 8.370, 8.910.2, 8.911.1. It also contains 1 errata for GR entry 3.541.8. [28])[…] Finally, he is the proud discoverer of an error in equation 3.454.1 of the Gradshteyn and Ryzhik "Tables of integrals, series, and products". See errata for 6th edition by Alan Jeffrey and Daniel Zwillinger, pages 1 and 19. The error is now corrected in the 7th edition page 363 (with acknowledgement in page xxvi). […]
[…] In 1936 Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik had a book entitled Special Functions published by the United Moscow-Leningrad Scientific-Technical Publisher. Ryzhik died in 1941, either during the siege of Leningrad, or fighting on the Russian front. In 1943, a table of formulas was published under Ryzhik's name by the Governmental Moscow-Leningrad Technical-Theoretical Publisher. The only thing the book seems to say about its origins is that it's responding to the shortage of books of formulas. It says that some integrals marked in it are original, but the others mostly come from three books—a French one from 1858, a German one from 1894, and an American one from 1922. It explains that effort went into the ordering of the integrals, and that some are simplified by using a new special function s equal to Gamma[x+y-1]/(Gamma[x]Gamma[y]). It then thanks three fairly prominent mathematicians from Moscow University. That's basically all we know about Ryzhik. […] Israil Solomonovitch Gradshteyn was born in 1899 in Odessa, and became a professor of mathematics at Moscow State University. But in 1948, he was fired as part of the Soviet attack on Jewish academics. To make money, he wanted to write a book. And so he decided to build on Ryzhik's tables. Apparently he never met Ryzhik. But he created a new edition, and by the third edition, the book was known as Gradshteyn-Ryzhik. […] Gradshteyn died of natural causes in Moscow in 1958. Though somehow there developed an urban legend that one of the authors of Gradshteyn-Ryzhik had been shot as a piece of anti-Semitism on the grounds that an error in their tables had caused an airplane crash. […] Meanwhile, starting around 1953, Yurii Geronimus, who had met Gradshteyn at Moscow State University, began helping with the editing of the tables, and actually added the appendices on special functions. Later on, several more people were involved. And when the tables were published in the West, there were arguments about royalties. But Geronimus [in 2005 was] still alive and well and living in Jerusalem, and Oleg phoned him […]
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (NB. This paper discusses 19 GR entries: 1.14.2.1, 1.320, 2.18.1.9, 3.753.2, 3.771.8, 6.611, 7.341.1, 7.341.2, 7.342, 7.343.1, 7.344.1, 7.344.2, 7.346, 7.348, 7.349, 7.355.1, 7.355.2, 8.411.1, 8.921. [27]){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (NB. This paper discusses 51 GR entries: 1.320.1, 1.320.3, 1.320.5, 1.320.7, 2.01.5, 2.01.6, 2.01.7, 2.01.8, 2.01.9, 2.01.10, 2.01.11, 2.01.12, 2.01.13, 2.01.14, 2.513.1, 2.513.2, 2.513.3, 2.513.4, 3.231.5, 3.274.2, 3.541.8, 3.611.3, 3.621.3, 3.621.4, 3.624.6, 3.631.16, 3.661.3, 3.661.4, 3.675.1, 3.675.2, 3.688.1, 3.721.1, 3.747.7, 3.761.4, 4.381.1, 4.381.2, 4.381.3, 4.381.4, 4.521.1, 6.671.7, 6.671.8, 7.244.1, 7.244.2, 7.531.1, 7.531.2, 8.230.1, 8.230.2, 8.361.7, 8.370, 8.910.2, 8.911.1. It also contains 1 errata for GR entry 3.541.8. [28])3.381.3, 3.411.6, 3.721.3, 3.761.2, 3.761.9, 3.897.1, 6.561.13, 8.350.2
[…] Finally, he is the proud discoverer of an error in equation 3.454.1 of the Gradshteyn and Ryzhik "Tables of integrals, series, and products". See errata for 6th edition by Alan Jeffrey and Daniel Zwillinger, pages 1 and 19. The error is now corrected in the 7th edition page 363 (with acknowledgement in page xxvi). […]