Laguerre polynomials famously describe the radial part of the solution of the Schrödinger equation for hydrogen-like atoms. In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger (right, with Werner Heisenberg and Paul ...

In recent decades, advances have extended the classical families—such as Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials—to so‐called exceptional orthogonal polynomials. These variants allow for ...