George Gasper

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

George Gasper is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Gasper has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Applied Mathematics, 17 papers in Algebra and Number Theory and 14 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in George Gasper's work include Mathematical functions and polynomials (45 papers), Advanced Mathematical Identities (15 papers) and Mathematical Analysis and Transform Methods (13 papers). George Gasper is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical functions and polynomials (45 papers), Advanced Mathematical Identities (15 papers) and Mathematical Analysis and Transform Methods (13 papers). George Gasper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. George Gasper's co-authors include Mizan Rahman, Richard Askey, Walter Trebels, George E. Andrews, Anthony Carbery, Krzysztof Stempak, Michael J. Schlosser, Mourad E. H. Ismail, Tom H. Koornwinder and Dennis Stanton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Mathematics and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

George Gasper

58 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Basic Hypergeometric Series 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Basic Hypergeometric Series
    2004 1.7k citations George Gasper, Mizan Rahman profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Gasper United States 20 1.9k 1.3k 612 561 482 64 2.9k
Mizan Rahman Canada 12 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 580 0.9× 445 0.8× 426 0.9× 32 2.2k
Tom H. Koornwinder Netherlands 27 1.6k 0.8× 834 0.6× 309 0.5× 768 1.4× 668 1.4× 99 2.7k
T. S. Chihara United States 19 2.1k 1.1× 558 0.4× 190 0.3× 280 0.5× 773 1.6× 43 3.0k
Walter Van Assche Belgium 31 2.8k 1.5× 929 0.7× 442 0.7× 487 0.9× 1.2k 2.5× 171 4.1k
L. Carlitz United States 37 1.5k 0.8× 2.9k 2.2× 2.0k 3.2× 1.2k 2.2× 573 1.2× 507 5.6k
Charles F. Dunkl United States 23 2.0k 1.1× 549 0.4× 195 0.3× 729 1.3× 596 1.2× 113 3.4k
Louis Comtet France 5 648 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 363 0.6× 335 0.7× 7 2.4k
H. W. Gould United States 21 647 0.3× 861 0.7× 552 0.9× 262 0.5× 338 0.7× 96 1.6k
Junesang Choi South Korea 26 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 508 0.8× 400 0.7× 296 0.6× 282 2.9k
Mourad E. H. Ismail United States 41 4.5k 2.4× 1.9k 1.4× 746 1.2× 1.0k 1.9× 1.5k 3.0× 274 6.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Gasper

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Gasper

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gasper, George & Mizan Rahman. (2006). Some systems of multivariable orthogonal q-Racah polynomials. The Ramanujan Journal. 13(1-3). 389–405. 57 indexed citations
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Gasper, George, et al.. (2000). The mathematical contributions of Richard Askey, in q-Series from a contemporary perspective,. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 254(254). 1–18.
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Gasper, George & Mizan Rahman. (1990). An Indefinite Bibasic Summation Formula and Some Quadratic, Cubic and Quartic Summation and Transformation Formulas. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 42(1). 1–27. 39 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1989). Summation, transformation, and expansion formulas for bibasic series. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 312(1). 257–277. 41 indexed citations
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Carbery, Anthony, George Gasper, & Walter Trebels. (1986). On localized potential spaces. Journal of Approximation Theory. 48(3). 251–261. 10 indexed citations
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Gasper, George & Mizan Rahman. (1986). Positivity of the Poisson Kernel for the Continuous q-Jacobi Polynomials and Some Quadratic Transformation Formulas for Basic Hypergeometric Series. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. 17(4). 970–999. 16 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1986). A short proof of an inequality used by de branges in his proof of the bieberbach, robertson and milin conjectures. Complex Variables Theory and Application An International Journal. 7(1-3). 45–50. 4 indexed citations
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Gasper, George & Mizan Rahman. (1983). Nonnegative kernels in product formulas for q-Racah polynomials. I. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 95(2). 304–318. 2 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1981). Orthogonality of Certain Functions with Respect to Complex Valued Weights. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 33(5). 1261–1270. 11 indexed citations
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Gasper, George & Walter Trebels. (1977). Multiplier criteria of Marcinkiewicz type for Jacobi expansions. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 231(1). 117–132. 8 indexed citations
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Askey, Richard, George Gasper, & Mourad E. H. Ismail. (1975). A positive sum from summability theory. Journal of Approximation Theory. 13(4). 413–420. 7 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1975). Products of terminating3F2(1) series. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 56(1). 87–95. 28 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1974). Projection formulas for orthogonal polynomials of a discrete variable. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 45(1). 176–198. 36 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1973). Nonnegativity of a discrete Poisson kernel for the Hahn polynomials. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 42(2). 438–451. 25 indexed citations
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Askey, Richard & George Gasper. (1971). Linearization of the Product of Jacobi Polynomials. III. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 23(2). 332–338. 28 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1971). Positivity and the Convolution Structure for Jacobi Series. Annals of Mathematics. 93(1). 112–112. 87 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1970). Linearization of the Product of Jacobi Polynomials. I. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 22(1). 171–175. 94 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1970). Linearization of the Product of Jacobi Polynomials. II. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 22(3). 582–593. 56 indexed citations
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Gasper, George. (1969). Nonnegative sums of cosine, ultraspherical and Jacobi polynomials. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 26(1). 60–68. 13 indexed citations
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Askey, Richard, et al.. (1968). Shorter Notes: On a Positive Trigonometric Sum. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 19(6). 1507–1507. 1 indexed citations

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