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.