• Paul Nevai, one of my external PhD advisors and from the Hungary Academia of Sciences, was a student of:
  • Geza Freud, Béla Szökefalvi-Nagy and Paul Turan of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • David Benko a student of Vilmos Totik of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is a coauthor of mine.
  • My PhD thesis was on weighted polynomial approximation for Erdős weights.
  • Paul Erdős has studied Erdős weights in connection with contracted zero distribution of orthogonal polynomials of Chebyshev type.
  • My PhD advisor Doron Lubinsky has papers in approximation theory and orthogonal polynomials with Nevai, Totik and other mathematicans from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • My Erdős Number is 3 through 11 people: David Benko, Peter Dragnev, Charles Fefferman, Peter Grabner, Arno Kuijlaars, Doron Lubinsky, Gary Mullen, Ed Saff, Michael Sears, Willard Miller, Michael Werman.