W. A. Light

880 total citations
35 papers, 499 citations indexed

About

W. A. Light is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, W. A. Light has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 499 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Mathematical Physics, 9 papers in Applied Mathematics and 8 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in W. A. Light's work include Advanced Banach Space Theory (8 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (7 papers) and Approximation Theory and Sequence Spaces (7 papers). W. A. Light is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Banach Space Theory (8 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (7 papers) and Approximation Theory and Sequence Spaces (7 papers). W. A. Light collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ghana. W. A. Light's co-authors include Elliott Ward Cheney, E. W. Cheney, Manfred V. Golitschek, Nira Dyn, D. L. Smith, W. J. Dulmage, Calvin D. Salzberg, E. Fraile, Thomas Martin and G. M. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

In The Last Decade

W. A. Light

31 papers receiving 439 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. A. Light United Kingdom	13	143	127	123	93	86	35	499
Konrad Knopp Germany	4	124 0.9×	98 0.8×	188 1.5×	36 0.4×	80 0.9×	15	643
Deborah Tepper Haimo United States	13	243 1.7×	125 1.0×	411 3.3×	45 0.5×	120 1.4×	41	749
Evgenij E. Tyrtyshnikov Russia	7	84 0.6×	401 3.2×	176 1.4×	105 1.1×	95 1.1×	7	553
Shayne Waldron New Zealand	12	58 0.4×	74 0.6×	283 2.3×	203 2.2×	126 1.5×	49	583
William F. Moss United States	8	76 0.5×	220 1.7×	130 1.1×	79 0.8×	73 0.8×	24	495
Kenjiro Yanagi Japan	12	64 0.4×	230 1.8×	223 1.8×	37 0.4×	89 1.0×	42	714
Edmund Hlawka Austria	10	81 0.6×	99 0.8×	146 1.2×	109 1.2×	346 4.0×	58	615
Lee Lorch Canada	14	112 0.8×	91 0.7×	453 3.7×	20 0.2×	106 1.2×	65	653
F.R. GANTMAKHER	6	49 0.3×	136 1.1×	59 0.5×	30 0.3×	60 0.7×	8	466
Rolf Dieter Grigorieff Germany	17	135 0.9×	329 2.6×	102 0.8×	310 3.3×	365 4.2×	44	673

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Golitschek, Manfred V. & W. A. Light. (2001). Interpolation by Polynomials and Radial Basis Functions on Spheres. Constructive Approximation. 17(1). 1–18. 33 indexed citations

Light, W. A.. (1992). Wavelets, subdivision algorithms, and radial basis functions. Oxford University Press eBooks. 23 indexed citations

Light, W. A.. (1991). Nonlinear partial differential equations and dynamical systems. Oxford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

Light, W. A. & E. W. Cheney. (1991). Interpolation by piecewise-linear radial basis functions, II. Journal of Approximation Theory. 64(1). 38–54. 4 indexed citations

Light, W. A.. (1990). A note on proximinality in function spaces F(S,X). Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization. 11(9-10). 959–966.

Light, W. A.. (1990). The Chebyshev solution of certain matrix equations. Numerische Mathematik. 57(1). 789–803.

Dyn, Nira, W. A. Light, & E. W. Cheney. (1989). Interpolation by piecewise-linear radial basis functions, I. Journal of Approximation Theory. 59(2). 202–223. 32 indexed citations

Light, W. A., et al.. (1986). On the von Neumann alternating algorithm in Hilbert space. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 114(2). 305–314. 19 indexed citations

Light, W. A.. (1986). A note on proximinality in C(S × T) with the L₁-norm. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 29(3). 335–341.

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Light, W. A.. (1986). Minimal projections in tensor-product spaces. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 191(4). 633–643. 12 indexed citations

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Light, W. A., et al.. (1985). Minimal projections in bivariate function spaces. Journal of Approximation Theory. 44(4). 315–324. 2 indexed citations

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Light, W. A.. (1985). n-WIDTHS IN APPROXIMATION THEORY (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete 3. Folge, Band 7). Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 17(5). 497–498. 20 indexed citations

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Light, W. A., et al.. (1984). The Alternating Algorithm in Uniformly Convex Spaces. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s2-29(3). 545–555. 14 indexed citations

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Light, W. A., John McCabe, G. M. Phillips, & E. W. Cheney. (1982). The approximation of bivariate functions by sums of univariate ones using the L₁-metric. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 25(2). 173–181. 7 indexed citations

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Light, W. A. & E. W. Cheney. (1981). Some best-approximation theorems in tensor-product spaces. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 89(3). 385–390. 17 indexed citations

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Light, W. A. & E. W. Cheney. (1980). On the approximation of a bivariate function by the sum of univariate functions. Journal of Approximation Theory. 29(4). 305–322. 21 indexed citations

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Light, W. A.. (1980). Non-linear families of projections on C[−1, 1]. Journal of Approximation Theory. 30(3). 197–202.

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Light, W. A., et al.. (1980). A note on Goldbach's conjecture. BIT Numerical Mathematics. 20(4). 525–525. 4 indexed citations

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Light, W. A.. (1979). Some optimality conditions for Chebyshev expansions. Journal of Approximation Theory. 27(2). 113–126. 4 indexed citations

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Light, W. A.. (1977). Norms of some projections on C[a, b]. Journal of Approximation Theory. 20(1). 51–56. 2 indexed citations

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