Lester E. Dubins

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Lester E. Dubins is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Finance and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lester E. Dubins has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Mathematical Physics, 15 papers in Finance and 15 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Lester E. Dubins's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (15 papers), Advanced Topology and Set Theory (8 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (6 papers). Lester E. Dubins is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (15 papers), Advanced Topology and Set Theory (8 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (6 papers). Lester E. Dubins collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lester E. Dubins's co-authors include David Blackwell, Darcy A. Freedman, David A. Freedman, Leonard J. Savage, Edwin H. Spanier, Gideon Schwarz, Morris H. DeGroot, David Gilat, L. A. Shepp and William D. Sudderth and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Lester E. Dubins

73 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

On Curves of Minimal Length with a Constraint on Average ... 1957 2026 1980 2003 1957 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. On Curves of Minimal Length with a Constraint on Average Curvature, and with Prescribed Initial and Terminal Positions and Tangents
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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lester E. Dubins United States 25 1.8k 1.1k 932 921 820 76 4.7k
Vivek S. Borkar India 37 169 0.1× 176 0.2× 1.7k 1.9× 495 0.5× 1.4k 1.7× 259 6.6k
F. P. Kelly United Kingdom 42 288 0.2× 156 0.1× 324 0.3× 482 0.5× 1.9k 2.3× 122 15.9k
Nimrod Megiddo United States 43 955 0.5× 321 0.3× 405 0.4× 614 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 150 8.5k
Martin Grötschel Germany 36 339 0.2× 111 0.1× 419 0.4× 296 0.3× 622 0.8× 107 8.4k
G. George Yin United States 27 203 0.1× 137 0.1× 1.8k 1.9× 175 0.2× 797 1.0× 111 5.4k
Steven I. Marcus United States 39 106 0.1× 147 0.1× 1.5k 1.6× 249 0.3× 800 1.0× 220 4.7k
Y. C. Ho United States 29 136 0.1× 796 0.7× 929 1.0× 372 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 120 4.5k
Robert M. Freund United States 25 1.6k 0.9× 77 0.1× 512 0.5× 144 0.2× 292 0.4× 84 4.3k
A. W. Tucker United States 16 202 0.1× 155 0.1× 311 0.3× 490 0.5× 569 0.7× 26 2.9k
François Baccelli France 43 110 0.1× 494 0.4× 150 0.2× 151 0.2× 773 0.9× 249 9.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dubins, Lester E., A. Maitra, Roger Purves, & William D. Sudderth. (1989). Measurable, nonleavable gambling problems. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 67(3). 257–271. 10 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & David Heath. (1984). On means with countably additive continuities. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 91(2). 270–270. 1 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & David Heath. (1983). With respect to tail sigma fields, standard measures possess measurable disintegrations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 88(3). 416–418. 6 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Gideon Schwarz. (1981). Equidiscontinuity of Borsuk-Ulam functions. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 95(1). 51–59. 6 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Jim Pitman. (1980). A divergent, two-parameter, bounded martingale. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 78(3). 414–416. 4 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Jim Pitman. (1979). A Pointwise Ergodic Theorem for the Group of Rational Rotations. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 251. 299–299. 2 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Jim Pitman. (1979). A pointwise ergodic theorem for the group of rational rotations. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 251(0). 299–308. 8 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & William D. Sudderth. (1979). On Stationary Strategies for Absolutely Continuous Houses. The Annals of Probability. 7(3). 11 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & David Gilat. (1978). On the Distribution of Maxima of Martingale. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 68(3). 337–337. 9 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1977). On everywhere-defined integrals. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 232(0). 187–194. 5 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1977). On Everywhere-Defined Integrals. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 232. 187–187. 1 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1977). Measurable, Tail Disintegrations of the Haar Integral are Purely Finitely Additive. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 62(1). 34–34. 7 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1968). A Simpler Proof of Smith's Roulette Theorem. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(2). 390–393. 8 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & David A. Freedman. (1967). Random distribution functions. Project Euclid (Cornell University). 46 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Gideon Schwarz. (1965). ON CONTINUOUS MARTINGALES. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(5). 913–916. 91 indexed citations
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Blackwell, David & Lester E. Dubins. (1963). Sharp bounds on the distribution of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 14(3). 450–453. 1 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1962). On extreme points of convex sets. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 5(2). 237–244. 54 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1962). Rises and upcrossings of nonnegative martingales. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 6(2). 12 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E. & Leonard J. Savage. (1960). OPTIMAL GAMBLING SYSTEMS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 46(12). 1597–1598. 4 indexed citations
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Dubins, Lester E.. (1957). Generalized random variables. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 84(2). 273–309. 16 indexed citations

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