George Piranian

George Piranian

George Piranian (born May 2, 1914 in Thalwil outside Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss-American mathematician, well known for several publications and contributions to his field. [ [http://www.georgepiranian.com georgepiranian.com] .]

His family moved to Logan, Utah (1929) where Piranian received a B.Sc. in agriculture and M.Sc. in botany (1937) at Utah State University,followed by a Ph.D. in mathematics under Szolem Mandelbrot at Rice University (1943), the dissertation entitled "A Study of the Position and Nature of the Singularities of Functions Given by Their Taylor Series". [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7764 entry] at mathematics geneaology] Piranian joined the faculty at University of Michigan (1945), working with Paul Erdős, Fritz Herzog and
Arthur J. Lohwater, founding Michigan Mathematical Journal (1952) which he edited (1954-).Piranian at one point taught and advised Theodore Kaczynski, then a Ph.D. student in mathematics. [ [http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1996/apr/04-05-96/news/unabomber.html Profs.: suspect was quiet, analytical] ]

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