Vilmos Totik (

Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a population ...

, March 8, 1954) is a Hungarian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, working in

classical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limits, and related theories, such as differentiation, integration, measure, infinite sequences, series, and analytic functions. These theories are usually studied in the ...

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of Function (mathematics), functions or signals as the Superposition principle, superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fo ...

orthogonal polynomials In mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonality, orthogonal to each other under some inner product. The most widely used orthogonal polynomial ...

approximation theory In mathematics, approximation theory is concerned with how function (mathematics), functions can best be approximation, approximated with simpler functions, and with quantitative property, quantitatively characterization (mathematics), characteri ...

potential theory In mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions. The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics when it was realized that two fundamental forces of nature known at the time, namely gravi ...

. He is a professor of the

University of Szeged , mottoeng = Truth. Bravery. Freedom. , established = , type = Public research university , founder = Emperor Franz Joseph I , affiliation = European University Association, Science Without Borders, Confucius Institute , budget = US$220 mi ...

. Since 1989 he is also a part-time professor at the

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF is ...

(Tampa). He received the

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in 2000 for his expository article ''A tale of two integrals''. He is a corresponding member (1993), member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

(2001). In 2015 he was elected as a

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of the

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"for contributions to classical analysis and approximation theory and for exposition.".

His books

* Z. Ditzian, V. Totik: ''Moduli of smoothness'', Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, 9, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987. x+227 pp. * Herbert Stahl, Vilmos Totik: ''General orthogonal polynomials, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications'', 43 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. xii+250 pp. * V. Totik: ''Weighted approximation with varying weight'', Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1569. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, vi+114 p. (1994). * Edward B. Saff, Vilmos Totik: ''Logarithmic potentials with external fields'', Appendix B by Thomas Bloom. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 316 Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997. xvi+505 pp. *

Péter Komjáth Péter Komjáth (born 8 April 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in set theory, especially combinatorial set theory. Komjáth is a professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University. He is currently a visiting facult ...

, Vilmos Totik: ''Problems and Theorems in Classical Set Theory'', Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006. * Vilmos Totik: ''Metric Properties of Harmonic Measures'', 163 pp, American Mathematical Society, 2006,

References

External links

Homepage at USF
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Totik, Vilmos 1954 births Living people Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Mathematical analysts Approximation theorists 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society