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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Edward B. Saff is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and specializes in various areas within mathematics. Their research predominantly spans fields such as numerical analysis, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and statistics and probability.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including mathematical approximation and integration, mathematical functions and polynomials, numerical methods in inverse problems, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, mathematical inequalities and applications, coding theory and cryptography, as well as matrix theory and algorithms.

Recent academic papers authored or co-authored by Edward B. Saff include:

  • "Archetype tasks link intratumoral heterogeneity to plasticity and cancer hallmarks in small cell lung cancer" (2022), published in Cell Systems
  • "Threshold condensation to singular support for a Riesz equilibrium problem" (2023), published in Analysis and Mathematical Physics
  • "Perturbations of Christoffel-Darboux Kernels: Detection of Outliers" (2020), published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics
  • "On the Search for Tight Frames of Low Coherence" (2020), published in Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications
  • "On the solution of a Riesz equilibrium problem and integral identities for special functions" (2022), published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Frequent co-authors include Douglas P. Hardin, Peter D. Dragnev, Peter Boyvalenkov, Maya Stoyanova, and Вилмос Тотик.

Key publication venues where Edward B. Saff has published multiple articles are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Analysis and Mathematical Physics
  • Potential Analysis
  • Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
  • Designs Codes and Cryptography

The scientist has authored books published by Springer Nature and Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series, including Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields (2024) and Matrix Fundamentals (2025).

Edward B. Saff has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013 and the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields

    Edward B. Saff;Vilmos Totik

  • Distributing many points on a sphere

    E. B. Saff;A. B. J. Kuijlaars

  • Proof of Theorem 2

    Albert Edrei;Edward B. Saff;Richard S. Varga

  • Proof of Theorem 4

    Albert Edrei;Edward B. Saff;Richard S. Varga

  • Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems

    R. Kent Nagle;E. B. Saff

  • Minimal Discrete Energy on the Sphere

    E. A. Rakhmanov;E. B. Saff;Y. M. Zhou

  • Proof of Theorem 5

    Albert Edrei;Edward B. Saff;Richard S. Varga

  • Fundamentals of complex analysis for mathematics, science, and engineering

    Edward B. Saff;Arthur David Snider

  • Where Does the Sup Norm of a Weighted Polynomial Live? (A Generalization of Incomplete Polynomials)

    H. N. Mhaskar;E. B. Saff

  • Extremal problems for polynomials with exponential weights

    H. N. Mhaskar;E. B. Saff

  • Asymptotics for minimal discrete energy on the sphere

    A.B.J. Kuijlaars;A.B.J. Kuijlaars;E.B. Saff

  • Proof of Theorem 6

    Albert Edrei;Edward B. Saff;Richard S. Varga

  • Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

    Sergiy V. Borodachov;Douglas P. Hardin;Edward B. Saff

  • Minimal Riesz Energy Point Configurations for Rectifiable d-Dimensional Manifolds

    D.P. Hardin;E.B. Saff

  • Constrained energy problems with applications to orthogonal polynomials of a discrete variable

    Peter D Dragnev;Edward B Saff

  • Fundamentals of Differential Equations

    R. Kent Nagle;Edward R. Saff;Arthur David Snider

  • An extension of Montessus de Ballore's theorem on the convergence of interpolating rational functions

    E.B Saff

  • On the zeros and poles of Padé approximants toez

    E. B. Saff;R. S. Varga

  • Jentzsch-Szegö type theorems for the zeros of best approximants

    Hans-Peter Blatt;Ed B. Saff;Mehrdad Simkani

  • A proof of Freud's conjecture for exponential weights

    D. S. Lubinsky;H. N. Mhaskar;E. B. Saff

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas P. Hardin
Douglas P. Hardin Vanderbilt University
Richard S. Varga
Richard S. Varga Kent State University
Vilmos Totik
Vilmos Totik University of Szeged
Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar
Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar Claremont Graduate University
Jonathan R. Partington
Jonathan R. Partington University of Leeds
Sylvia Serfaty
Sylvia Serfaty Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Mihai Putinar
Mihai Putinar University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert S. Womersley
Robert S. Womersley University of New South Wales

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