Cornelius Lanczos

11.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
38 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Cornelius Lanczos is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornelius Lanczos has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in Cornelius Lanczos's work include Relativity and Gravitational Theory (14 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (7 papers). Cornelius Lanczos is often cited by papers focused on Relativity and Gravitational Theory (14 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (7 papers). Cornelius Lanczos collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and Israel. Cornelius Lanczos's co-authors include J. Gillis, David Dickinson, D. E. Barton, William Karush, Magnus R. Hestenes, N. L. Balázs, J. Barkley Rosser, William R. Davis, Raymond J. Seeger and B K P Scaife and has published in prestigious journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics Today and Biometrika.

In The Last Decade

Cornelius Lanczos

36 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Applied analysis

1961 1.2k citations Cornelius Lanczos profile →
Solution of systems of linear equations by minimized iterations

1952 598 citations Cornelius Lanczos Journal of research of the National Bureau of Standards profile →
Linear Differential Operators

1962 464 citations Cornelius Lanczos, J. Gillis Physics Today profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cornelius Lanczos Ireland	18	694	569	467	455	356	38	3.1k
F. B. Hildebrand United States	11	349 0.5×	516 0.9×	483 1.0×	686 1.5×	261 0.7×	13	4.4k
Kurt Friedrichs United States	21	507 0.7×	413 0.7×	432 0.9×	1.3k 2.9×	536 1.5×	44	4.5k
V. S. Vladimirov Russia	17	897 1.3×	539 0.9×	475 1.0×	358 0.8×	401 1.1×	48	4.7k
F. Ursell United Kingdom	25	212 0.3×	733 1.3×	206 0.4×	895 2.0×	504 1.4×	61	3.5k
Joel Franklin United States	19	464 0.7×	160 0.3×	254 0.5×	215 0.5×	251 0.7×	70	2.8k
Jacques E. Romain United States	15	802 1.2×	365 0.6×	196 0.4×	1.1k 2.5×	288 0.8×	45	3.8k
Paul N. Swarztrauber United States	26	518 0.7×	276 0.5×	322 0.7×	1.1k 2.5×	129 0.4×	52	2.9k
W.F. Ames United States	28	468 0.7×	301 0.5×	604 1.3×	757 1.7×	1.0k 2.9×	137	4.4k
P. F. Zweifel United States	27	314 0.5×	1.2k 2.1×	172 0.4×	656 1.4×	803 2.3×	182	4.8k
William C. Davidon United States	16	289 0.4×	676 1.2×	353 0.8×	201 0.4×	304 0.9×	36	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cornelius Lanczos

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (2016). Discourse on Fourier Series. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks. 19 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius & William R. Davis. (1998). CORNELIUS LANCZOS COLLECTED PUBLISHED PAPERS WITH COMMENTARIES. A1, A15–A1, A15. 5 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius, et al.. (1975). Fourier analysis of random sequences. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 1(3-4). 269–276. 9 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius & N. L. Balázs. (1975). The Einstein Decade (1905–1915). Physics Today. 28(8). 70–70. 9 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius & B K P Scaife. (1974). Studies in numerical analysis : papers in honour of Cornelius Lanczos. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius, et al.. (1973). The Variational Principles of Mechanics. The Mathematical Gazette. 57(399). 81–81. 53 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1972). Vector potential and quadratic action. Foundations of Physics. 2(4). 271–285. 3 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1970). Space through the ages : the evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 6 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1967). Einstein Equations and Electromagnetism. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 8(4). 829–836. 4 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1966). Metrical Lattice and the Problem of Electricity. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 7(2). 316–324. 7 indexed citations

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Brill, Dieter R. & Cornelius Lanczos. (1966). Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order.. American Mathematical Monthly. 73(10). 1145–1145. 1 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1966). Boundary Value Problems and Orthogonal Expansions. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 14(4). 831–863. 7 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius & Raymond J. Seeger. (1965). Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order. American Journal of Physics. 33(11). 972–972. 4 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1964). A Precision Approximation of the Gamma Function. 1(1). 86–96. 95 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius & J. Gillis. (1962). Linear Differential Operators. Physics Today. 15(7). 51–51. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1962). The Splitting of the Riemann Tensor. Reviews of Modern Physics. 34(3). 379–389. 108 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1957). Electricity and General Relativity. Reviews of Modern Physics. 29(3). 337–350. 47 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius, et al.. (1957). Applied Analysis. Physics Today. 10(6). 44–46. 43 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1955). Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. Il Nuovo Cimento. 2(S5). 1193–1220. 3 indexed citations

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Lanczos, Cornelius. (1952). Solution of systems of linear equations by minimized iterations. Journal of research of the National Bureau of Standards. 49(1). 33–33. 598 indexed citations breakdown →

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