Bob Burn

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Bob Burn is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Theoretical Computer Science and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bob Burn has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Geometry and Topology, 7 papers in Theoretical Computer Science and 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Bob Burn's work include Mathematics and Applications (7 papers), History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis (3 papers). Bob Burn is often cited by papers focused on Mathematics and Applications (7 papers), History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis (3 papers). Bob Burn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Bob Burn's co-authors include Ian H. Sloan, Ezzat S. Noussair, R. G. Conway and Amanda G. Chetwynd and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Bob Burn

15 papers receiving 621 citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

On the Depolarization of Discrete Radio Sources by Faraday Dispersion

1966 562 citations Bob Burn Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bob Burn United Kingdom	7	529	377	49	35	33	22	681
Lior M. Burko United States	21	1.1k 2.2×	793 2.1×	139 2.8×	27 0.8×	10 0.3×	77	1.3k
Dino Boccaletti Italy	12	296 0.6×	117 0.3×	64 1.3×	3 0.1×	8 0.2×	47	535
Frank J. Masci United States	22	1.8k 3.4×	364 1.0×	46 0.9×	30 0.9×	68 2.1×	96	1.9k
P. O. Vandervoort United States	12	419 0.8×	128 0.3×	56 1.1×		37 1.1×	50	530
L. W. Ramsey United States	4	654 1.2×	130 0.3×	94 1.9×	2 0.1×	41 1.2×	15	772
Matteo Luca Ruggiero Italy	17	671 1.3×	337 0.9×	169 3.4×	7 0.2×	8 0.2×	72	865
Ronald Wilhelm United States	17	2.0k 3.8×	150 0.4×	67 1.4×	23 0.7×	109 3.3×	38	2.0k
D. Wills United States	18	1.3k 2.5×	497 1.3×	49 1.0×		29 0.9×	46	1.4k
K. J. Fricke Germany	32	2.5k 4.7×	241 0.6×	81 1.7×		33 1.0×	108	2.6k
Patrick S. Osmer United States	21	1.2k 2.2×	257 0.7×	80 1.6×		85 2.6×	77	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bob Burn

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Burn, Bob. (2016). Early tables resembling those of natural logarithms. 31(2). 112–122.

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Burn, Bob. (2013). Root 2: the early evidence and later conjectures. 28(3). 114–120.

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Burn, Bob. (2010). Sums of powers of integers – how Fermat may have found them. The Mathematical Gazette. 94(529). 18–26. 2 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (2007). Elephants and Ivory. Significance. 4(3). 118–122. 4 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (2005). The Vice: Some Historically Inspired and Proof-Generated Steps to Limits of Sequences. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 60(3). 269–295. 13 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (2003). 87.23 Triangles with a 60° angle and sides of integer length. The Mathematical Gazette. 87(508). 148–153. 3 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (2001). Fundamentals of teaching mathematics at university levelTitle: Fundamentals of teaching mathematics at university level by B. Baumslag Publisher: Imperial College Press , ISBN: 1-86094-214-8 , Price £35. MSOR Connections. 1(1). 14–14. 1 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (2000). Gregory of St Vincent and the rectangular hyperbola. The Mathematical Gazette. 84(501). 480–485. 2 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1998). Napier's Logarithms.. Mathematics in school. 27(4). 32–33. 1 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob, et al.. (1998). Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics. IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1996). What are the fundamental concepts of group theory?. Educational Studies in Mathematics. 31(4). 371–377. 17 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1995). A radical approach to real analysis, by David Bressoud. Pp328. $29. 1994. ISBN-0-88385-701-4 (Mathematical Association of America). The Mathematical Gazette. 79(484). 219–220.

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Sloan, Ian H. & Bob Burn. (1992). An Unconventional Quadrature Method for Logarithmic-Kernel Integral Equations Equations on Closed Curves. Journal of Integral Equations and Applications. 4(1). 16 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1991). Cycling digits. The Mathematical Gazette. 75(472). 154–157. 1 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1990). 74.45 The Orton-Flower tessellation. The Mathematical Gazette. 74(470). 372–373. 1 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1990). Filling holes in the real line. The Mathematical Gazette. 74(469). 228–232. 2 indexed citations

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Sloan, Ian H., Ezzat S. Noussair, & Bob Burn. (1979). Projection methods for equations of the second kind. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 69(1). 84–103. 14 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob & R. G. Conway. (1976). The Moments of the Brightness Distribution of a Radio Source. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 175(3). 461–471. 6 indexed citations

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Sloan, Ian H., et al.. (1975). A new approach to the numerical solution of integral equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 18(1). 92–105. 26 indexed citations

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Burn, Bob. (1966). On the Depolarization of Discrete Radio Sources by Faraday Dispersion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 133(1). 67–83. 562 indexed citations breakdown →

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