Meyer Jerison

Meyer Jerison
Born	November 28, 1922 Białystok
Died	March 13, 1995
Residence	United States
Fields	Functional analysis Rings
Institutions	Purdue University
Alma mater	University of Michigan, PhD 1950
Doctoral advisor	Sumner Myers

Meyer Jerison (1922–1995) was an American mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and rings, and especially for collaborating with Leonard Gillman on one of the standard texts in the field: Rings of Continuous Functions.

Biography

Jerison immigrated in 1929 from Poland and was naturalized in 1933.^[1] He earned a bachelor degree in 1943 from City College and a master's degree in applied math in 1947 from Brown University. In 1945, he married the former Miriam Schwartz.^[1] He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1950 from the University of Michigan under Sumner Myers with a dissertation entitled "The Space of Bounded Maps Into a Banach Space."

Jerison worked briefly at NACA in Cleveland and at Lockheed Corporation. He joined the mathematics faculty at Purdue University in 1951, where he spent the remainder of his career, retiring in 1991.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} L. Gillman and M. Henriksen (1996) Meyer Jerison, 1922-1995, NAMS 43(1), 17-18.

External links

• Meyer Jerison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Jerison, Meyer
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	November 28, 1922
Place of birth	Białystok
Date of death	March 13, 1995
Place of death