Hillel Fürstenberg

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Hillel Fürstenberg is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hillel Fürstenberg has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Geometry and Topology, 14 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and 14 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Hillel Fürstenberg's work include Advanced Topology and Set Theory (14 papers), Limits and Structures in Graph Theory (14 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers). Hillel Fürstenberg is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Topology and Set Theory (14 papers), Limits and Structures in Graph Theory (14 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers). Hillel Fürstenberg collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Hillel Fürstenberg's co-authors include Harry Kesten, Yitzhak Katznelson, Bernard Weiss, Yuri Kifer, Donald Ornstein, Benjamin Weiss, Vitaly Bergelson, Randall McCutcheon, Benjamin Weiss and Jean Bourgain and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society and American Journal of Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Hillel Fürstenberg

28 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Products of Random Matrices 1960 2026 1982 2004 1960 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Products of Random Matrices
    1960 577 citations Hillel Fürstenberg, Harry Kesten The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hillel Fürstenberg Israel 14 1.1k 744 502 451 289 29 1.8k
Benjamin Weiss Israel 25 1.6k 1.5× 912 1.2× 99 0.2× 652 1.4× 277 1.0× 76 2.0k
Harry Furstenberg Israel 15 1.9k 1.7× 1.3k 1.8× 670 1.3× 675 1.5× 427 1.5× 22 2.9k
James Propp United States 17 597 0.6× 376 0.5× 502 1.0× 337 0.7× 128 0.4× 66 1.8k
Donald Ornstein United States 31 2.1k 1.9× 892 1.2× 119 0.2× 846 1.9× 603 2.1× 71 3.1k
Alexander K. Zvonkin France 9 348 0.3× 291 0.4× 203 0.4× 470 1.0× 139 0.5× 22 1.2k
Wolfgang Woess Austria 23 1.3k 1.2× 989 1.3× 221 0.4× 657 1.5× 159 0.6× 89 1.9k
Audrey Terras United States 15 461 0.4× 526 0.7× 248 0.5× 231 0.5× 166 0.6× 48 1.3k
Adriano M. Garsia United States 31 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 1.4k 2.8× 408 0.9× 168 0.6× 98 2.7k
Gérald Tenenbaum France 23 624 0.6× 617 0.8× 539 1.1× 276 0.6× 108 0.4× 129 2.2k
R. Daniel Mauldin United States 27 2.2k 2.0× 965 1.3× 81 0.2× 623 1.4× 542 1.9× 130 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hillel Fürstenberg

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fürstenberg, Hillel. (2014). Ergodic Theory and Fractal Geometry. 7 indexed citations
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Barnsley, Michael F., Michael Frame, Roger Howe, et al.. (2012). The Influence of Benoît B. Mandelbrot on Mathematics. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 59(9). 1208–1208. 5 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel. (2011). Ergodic Structures and Non-conventional Ergodic Theorems. 286–298. 2 indexed citations
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Bergelson, Vitaly & Hillel Fürstenberg. (2009). WM groups and Ramsey theory. Topology and its Applications. 156(16). 2572–2580. 5 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel. (2008). Ergodic fractal measures and dimension conservation. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 28(2). 405–422. 43 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Benjamin Weiss. (2003). Markov Processes and Ramsey Theory for Trees. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 12(5-6). 547–563. 9 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Abram Kagan. (2001). WITHDRAWN: Linear regression and second moments. Statistics & Probability Letters. 1 indexed citations
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Bergelson, Vitaly, Hillel Fürstenberg, & Randall McCutcheon. (1996). IP-sets and polynomial recurrence. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 16(5). 963–974. 22 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel, Yuval Peres, & Benjamin Weiss. (1995). Perfect filtering and double disjointness. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 31(3). 453–465. 6 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel, et al.. (1994). Product recurrence and distal points. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 343(1). 221–232. 12 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel, et al.. (1993). Topological Properties of Rn Suspensions and Growth Properties of Zn Cocycles. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. s3-66(2). 431–448. 4 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel. (1990). Recurrent Ergodic Structures and Ramsey Theory. 4 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Yitzhak Katznelson. (1989). Idempotents in compact semigroups and Ramsey theory. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 68(3). 257–270. 47 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Yitzhak Katznelson. (1989). A density version of the Hales-Jewett theorem for k=3. Discrete Mathematics. 75(1-3). 227–241. 17 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Yitzhak Katznelson. (1986). 𝐼𝑃_𝑟-sets, Szemerédi’s theorem, and Ramsey theory. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 14(2). 275–278. 6 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Yuri Kifer. (1983). Random matrix products and measures on projective spaces. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 46(1-2). 12–32. 88 indexed citations
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Bellow, Alexandra & Hillel Fürstenberg. (1979). An application of number theory to ergodic theory and the construction of uniquely ergodic models. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 33(3-4). 231–240. 3 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Yitzhak Katznelson. (1978). An ergodic Szemerédi theorem for commuting transformations. Journal d Analyse Mathématique. 34(1). 275–291. 120 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel. (1961). Strict Ergodicity and Transformation of the Torus. American Journal of Mathematics. 83(4). 573–573. 290 indexed citations
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Fürstenberg, Hillel & Harry Kesten. (1960). Products of Random Matrices. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 31(2). 457–469. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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