Vilmos Totik

Vilmos Totik (born March 8, 1954 in Mosonmagyaróvár ) is a Hungarian mathematician who researches in the field of analysis .

Totik studied at the University of Szeged and graduated in 1978 with a diploma. In 1980 he received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and his habilitation in 1986. He taught from 1981 as an assistant professor in Szeged with a full professorship from 1988. He also taught since 1989 at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Totik is particularly concerned with approximation theory , orthogonal polynomials and potential theory .

In 1993 he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

In 2000 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award . In 1979 he received the Grünwald Prize and in 2012 the Szele Prize of the Hungarian Mathematical Society .

He was visiting scholar at the University of Alberta , the University of Kuwait, the University of Witwatersrand and the Ohio State University .

Fonts

with Z. Ditzlan: Moduli of Smoothness, Springer Series for Computational Mathematics 9, Springer 1987
with H. Stahl: General Orthogonal Polynomials, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Cambridge University 1992
Weighted approximation with varying weights, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1569, Springer Verlag 1994.
Metric properties of harmonic measures, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 184, 2006
with P. Komjáth: Problems and Theorems in Set Theory, Problem Books in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 2006.
Polynomial Approximation on Polytopes, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 212, 2014
with Edward B. Saff : Logarithmic potentials with external fields, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 316, Springer 1997

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personal data
SURNAME	Totik, Vilmos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mosonmagyaróvár