George Piranian
| George Piranian | |
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George Piranian (pictured in center) at Oberwolfach (1961)
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| Born |
May 2, 1914 Thalwil, Switzerland |
| Died | August 31, 2009 (aged 95) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Alma mater | Rice University |
| Doctoral advisor | Szolem Mandelbrojt |
| Doctoral students |
George Brauer Gerald Cargo James Osborn |
George Piranian (Armenian: Գևորգ Փիրանեան; May 2, 1914 – August 31, 2009), was a Swiss-American mathematician of Swiss and Armenian descent. Piranian was internationally known for his research in complex analysis, his association with Paul Erdős, and his editing of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.
Piranian was born in Thalwil outside Zürich, Switzerland. His family immigrated to Logan, Utah (1929) where Piranian received a B.Sc. in agriculture and M.Sc. in botany (1937) at Utah State University. As a Rhodes scholar, Piranian first "tasted blood" in mathematics at Oxford.
After returning to the United States, Piranian earned his Ph.D. in mathematics under Szolem Mandelbrojt at Rice University (1943). Piranian's dissertation was entitled A Study of the Position and Nature of the Singularities of Functions Given by Their Taylor Series.
Piranian joined the faculty at University of Michigan in 1945.
In 1952, Piranian, along with Paul Erdős, Fritz Herzog and Arthur J. Lohwater, founded the Michigan Mathematical Journal; leadership in editing was assumed by Piranian in 1954.
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