Circa 2011
Antonio R. Vargas

Ph.D. Student

Chase Building, Room 226
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J5

antoniov (at) mathstat (dot) dal (dot) ca

My CV.

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Research Interests

I'm primarily interested in studying the zeros of polynomials of a single complex variable (locating them, counting them, examining asymptotic distributions in families, etc.) from the standpoint of classical analysis.


MSc. Thesis

Zeros of Sections of Some Power Series
[arXiv]


Papers

Zeros of partial sums of power series for a family of exponential integrals, I
A. R. Vargas
(submitted)
[arXiv]

Zeros and convergent subsequences of Stern polynomials
A. R. Vargas
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 398 (2013), No. 2, pp. 630–637.
[ScienceDirect, arXiv]

Interlacing and non-orthogonality of spectral polynomials for the Lamé operator
A. Bourget, T. McMillen, and A. R. Vargas
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 137 (2009), No. 5, pp. 1699–1710.
[AMS, arXiv]


Misc. Notes

18 Feb, 2013 An animation of the zeros of sections of exponential integrals, an interesting plot that relates to my master's thesis
25 July, 2011 Asymptotic bound for a particular sum, answering a question of Qiaochu Yuan




Background

I received my BA in mathematics from California State University, Fullerton and my MSc. in mathematics from Dalhousie University.



Some cool web pages

The Beauty of Roots
John Baez
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/


Some cool papers by other people

A sum over the zeros of partial sums of exp(x)
C. Yalçin Yildirim
Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 6 (1991), No. 1-2, pp. 51-66.
[pdf]

On the number of distinct zeros of polynomials
M. S. Klamkin and D. J. Newman
The American Mathematical Monthly, 66 (1959), No. 6, pp. 494-496.
[JSTOR]

Finite Calculus: A Tutorial for Solving Nasty Sums
David Gleich
[pdf]


Some cool books

Marden, Geometry of Polynomials

Halmos, Naive Set Theory

Alexandroff, Elementary Concepts in Topology

Olds, Continued Fractions