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Alex Townsend

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Publications

39

Citations

1.8K

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23

Active since

2012

Affiliations

Cornell University(Current)

University of Oxford

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The University of Sydney

Stellenbosch University

Alex Townsend is an author at Cornell University specializing in engineering, approximation theory, and numerical analysis.

Top concepts

EngineeringApproximation TheoryNumerical AnalysisInverse ProblemsSpectral TheoryComputer ScienceFunctional AnalysisStatisticsNatural SciencesMathematical Programming

Publications per year

2012–2023

39

Publications

39

A Fast and Well-Conditioned Spectral Method

Sheehan Olver, Alex Townsend · SIAM Review · 2013 · 224 citations

Spectral Theory, Numerical Analysis, Engineering +16

Why Are Big Data Matrices Approximately Low Rank?

Madeleine Udell, Alex Townsend · SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science · 2019 · 195 citations · Full text

Low Rank Matrix, Latent Modeling, Low Rank Structure +15

Fast and Accurate Computation of Gauss--Legendre and Gauss--Jacobi Quadrature Nodes and Weights

Nicholas Hale, Alex Townsend · SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing · 2013 · 194 citations

Numerical Analysis, Engineering, Accurate Computation +16

An Extension of Chebfun to Two Dimensions

Alex Townsend, Lloyd N. Trefethen · SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing · 2013 · 137 citations

The automatic solution of partial differential equations using a global spectral method

Alex Townsend, Sheehan Olver · Journal of Computational Physics · 2015 · 73 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Spectral Theory, Method Of Fundamental Solution +11

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