Edward B. Saff

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Edward Barry Saff (born January 2, 1944 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with (complex) analysis and approximation theory.

Life

Saff graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and received his PhD in 1968 with Joseph Leonard Walsh at the University of Maryland in College Park (Interpolation and Functions of Class H (k, a, 2)). As a post-doctoral student , he was a Fulbright scholar at Imperial College London (1968/69) and from 1969 Assistant Professor, from 1971 Associate Professor and from 1976 Professor at the University of South Florida . From 1986 he was Distinguished Research Professor there. From 2001 he was director of the Center for Constructive Approximation at Vanderbilt University. From 2004 to 2007 he was Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Act

Saff deals with approximation of functions in the complex with polynomials and rational functions, approximate solutions of differential equations, Padé approximation, geometry of polynomials, special functions, Hardy spaces, conformal maps (including numerics) and potential theory (minima of energy under external constraints or outer fields).

In 1978 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Oxford. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . He is a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and an honorary professor at the Zhejiang Normal University in China (1987).

Fonts

Books:

  • with AD Snider: Fundamentals of Complex Analysis, Prentice-Hall 1976, 3rd edition 2003
  • with AW Goodman: Calculus: Concepts and Calculations, Macmillan 1981
  • with A. Edrei, RS Varga: Zeros of Sections of Power Series, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1002, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983.
  • with RK Nagle: Fundamentals of Differential Equations, Benjamin-Cummings 1986, 8th edition 2012 (additionally with AD Snider)
  • with RK Nagle: Fundamentals of Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Addison-Wesley 1993, 6th edition 2012 (additionally with AD Snider)
  • with DS Lubinsky: Strong Asymptotics for Extremal Polynomials Associated with Weights on R, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1305, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988.
  • with Vilmos Totik: Logarithmic potentials with external fields, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 316, Springer 1997
  • with AD Snider: Fundamentals of Matrix Analysis, Wiley 2016

Editorships:

  • with AA Gonchar : Approximation Theory in Complex Analysis and Mathematical Physics: A Workshop held in the Euler International Mathematical Institute, Leningrad, Spring 1991, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1550, Springer-Verlag 1993
  • with St. Ruscheweyh, L. Salinas, Richard S. Varga : Computational Methods and Function Theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1435, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990.
  • Approximation Theory, Tampa, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1287, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987.
  • with PR Graves-Morris, RS Varga: Rational Approximation and Interpolation, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1105, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Editor with N. Papamichael, St. Ruscheweyh: Computational Methods and Function Theory 1997, World Scientific, 1999.
  • Editor with RS Varga: Padé and Rational Approximation: Theory and Application, Academic Press, New York, 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ In 2000, together with TJ Rivlin, he edited his Selected Papers at Springer
  3. ^ Edward B. Saff in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Saff, Edward B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saff, Edward Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City