Edward B. Saff

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
184 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Edward B. Saff is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward B. Saff has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Applied Mathematics, 88 papers in Numerical Analysis and 37 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Edward B. Saff's work include Mathematical functions and polynomials (94 papers), Mathematical Approximation and Integration (51 papers) and Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations (29 papers). Edward B. Saff is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical functions and polynomials (94 papers), Mathematical Approximation and Integration (51 papers) and Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations (29 papers). Edward B. Saff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and France. Edward B. Saff's co-authors include Вилмос Тотик, Arno B. J. Kuijlaars, H. N. Mhaskar, R. S. Varga, Douglas P. Hardin, D. S. Lubinsky, Evguenii Andreevich Rakhmanov, Peter D Dragnev, Yao Zhou and Arthur David Snider and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Lecture notes in mathematics and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Edward B. Saff

175 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields

1997 901 citations Edward B. Saff, Вилмос Тотик CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Distributing many points on a sphere

1997 740 citations Edward B. Saff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edward B. Saff United States	31	2.4k	1.3k	871	817	655	184	4.6k
Rajendra Bhatia India	26	2.9k 1.2×	582 0.4×	974 1.1×	2.7k 3.3×	813 1.2×	81	6.0k
T. J. Rivlin United States	23	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	606 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	523 0.8×	71	5.3k
Yuan Xu United States	29	2.5k 1.0×	674 0.5×	722 0.8×	602 0.7×	224 0.3×	188	3.9k
Arno B. J. Kuijlaars Belgium	29	1.4k 0.6×	491 0.4×	656 0.8×	648 0.8×	219 0.3×	102	2.9k
Richard Askey United States	36	4.2k 1.8×	946 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	964 1.5×	154	6.9k
Walter Gautschi United States	34	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	341 0.4×	1.7k 2.1×	316 0.5×	214	6.4k
G. A. Garreau United Kingdom	2	2.3k 1.0×	424 0.3×	1.7k 2.0×	1.1k 1.4×	895 1.4×	5	5.9k
M. Г. Крейн Germany	23	2.6k 1.1×	785 0.6×	2.6k 3.0×	2.2k 2.7×	460 0.7×	53	5.7k
Peter Borwein Canada	28	1.6k 0.7×	496 0.4×	615 0.7×	810 1.0×	882 1.3×	179	3.7k
W. J. Thron United States	22	1.6k 0.7×	543 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.6×	87	4.7k

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Chafaï, Djalil, et al.. (2024). Riesz Energy with a Radial External Field: When is the Equilibrium Support a Sphere?. Potential Analysis. 63(2). 705–738. 1 indexed citations

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Boyvalenkov, Peter, et al.. (2024). Universal minima of discrete potentials for sharp spherical codes. Revista Matemática Iberoamericana. 41(2). 603–650.

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Saff, Edward B. & Вилмос Тотик. (2024). Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields. 1 indexed citations

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Baratchart, Laurent, et al.. (2018). Inverse Potential Problems for Divergence of Measures with Total\n Variation Regularization. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Hardin, Douglas P., et al.. (2016). A Comparison of Popular Point Configurations on S^2. 9(1). 24 indexed citations

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Boyvalenkov, Peter, et al.. (2015). Universal upper and lower bounds on energy of spherical designs. 8. 4 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., et al.. (2013). Determining singularities using rows of Pade-orthogonal approximants †. 5(2). 179–208. 3 indexed citations

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Grabner, Peter J., Douglas P. Hardin, Edward B. Saff, & Martina Zähle. (2008). Mini-Workshop: Geometric Measure Theoretic Approaches to Potentials on Fractals and Manifolds. Oberwolfach Reports. 4(2). 1027–1072. 1 indexed citations

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Martı́nez-Finkelshtein, Andrei, et al.. (2004). Asymptotics for Minimal Discrete Riesz Energy on Curves in ℝ^d. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 56(3). 529–552. 29 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., et al.. (2000). Joseph L. Walsh : selected papers. Springer eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Dehesa, J. S., et al.. (1999). Asymptotics of the Information Entropy for Jacobi and Laguerre Polynomials with Varying Weights. Journal of Approximation Theory. 99(1). 153–166. 34 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B. & Herbert Stahl. (1997). Ray Sequences of Best Rational Approximants For |x|^α. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 49(5). 1034–1065. 5 indexed citations

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Gonchar, A A & Edward B. Saff. (1992). Progress in approximation theory : an international perspective. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 11 indexed citations

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Jones, William B., Olav Njåstad, & Edward B. Saff. (1990). Szegö polynomials associated with Wiener-Levinson filters. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 32(3). 387–406. 30 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., et al.. (1990). Interpolatory properties of best L2-approximants. Indagationes Mathematicae. 1(4). 489–498. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaopeng, Edward B. Saff, & Sha Zhou. (1990). Behavior of best L polynomial approximants on the unit interval and on the unit circle. Journal of Approximation Theory. 63(2). 170–190. 8 indexed citations

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Leviatan, D., A. L. Levin, & Edward B. Saff. (1989). On approximation in the L-norm by reciprocals of polynomials. Journal of Approximation Theory. 57(3). 322–331. 5 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., A. Sharma, & R. S. Varga. (1981). An extension to rational functions of a theorem of J. L. Walsh on differences of interpolating polynomials. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 15(4). 371–390. 2 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., et al.. (1971). A note on the location of critical points of polynomials. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 27(2). 303–303. 10 indexed citations

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Saff, Edward B., et al.. (1971). Bounded approximation by polynomials whose zeros lie on a circle. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 29(3). 482–486. 4 indexed citations

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