Noor Muhammad

For the Pakistani nuclear physicist and scientist, see Noor Muhammad Butt.

Noor Muhammad
Born	April 15, 1951 Abbottabad, Haripur District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Died	April 12, 2004(2004-04-12) (aged 52) Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory
Residence	Islamabad, Pakistan
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei University of Munster, Germany International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
Alma mater	University of Peshawar, N.W.F.P. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Moscow State University, Russia.
Doctoral advisor	Grigory Barenblatt
Notable students	Dr. Muhammad Farooq
Known for	his work on C*-algebra, Pseudo-differential operator, approximation theory, Topological Algebra, and Symmetric topology
Influenced	Abdus Salam
Notable awards	Gold Medal, Pakistan Mathematican Society

Dr. Prof. Noor Muhammad (April 15, 1951 - April 12, 2004), was a notable Pakistani mathematician and mathematics writer who made an original contribution to the fields of C*-algebra, Symmetric topology and pure mathematics.^[1] He was the chairman of Department of Mathematics, in which he assumed this position in 2000 till 2002. He was a distinguished student of Russian mathematician dr. Grigory Barenblatt, and made significant efforts to the fields of topological algebras.

He was the co-author of Symmetric Topological Algebras and Applications which was published at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and since then, dr. Noor Muhammad has produced 20 M.Phil. students at the Quaid-i-Azam University since his PhD in 1983. His death is a loss to the mathematical community in Pakistan^{[citation needed]}.

Life and Education

Muhammad was born in Abbottabad, Haripur District where he completed his high school from there. In 1971, Muhammad gained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Peshawar, followed by his Master of Science in Mathematics in 1973 from Quaid-i-Azam University. With an scholarship awarded by the Quaid-i-Azam University, Muhammad traveled to Soviet Union in 1979, and completed his thesis in 1983 under the direction of dr. Grigory Barenblatt from Moscow State University. His doctoral thesis covered the Functional Analysis, namely C*-algebras. He taught mathematics at the Moscow State University till 1984 and subsequently moved to Trieste, Italy the same year.^[2]

International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Noor Muhammad joined International Centre for Theoretical Physics on the request of prominent theoretical physics and nobel laureate in Physics Dr. Prof. Abdus Salam. As a post-doctoral fellow, he also worked on P-Commutative Topological Algebras. From 1990 till 1995, he became an associate professor of mathematician at ICTP. Noor Mohammad, at ICTP, published more than 30 articles in refereed international journals during the course of his career.^[3]

Academic Career in Mathematics

He reluctantly returned to Pakistan where he joined Quaid-i-Azam University and became a chairperson of the Department of Mathematics. he produced a number of research papers on elliptic pseudo-differential operators over C*-Algebras for compact manifold. He had also published papers on topics in approximation theory, derivation on topological algebras and multipliers of topological algebra.

In mathematics, the Functional Analysis depends heavily upon topology, especially the branch of Functional Analysis that Dr. Noor Muhammad specialized in. His lectures notes on a first course on functional analysis, a copy of which is still available, are topological based. He was a close associate and college of dr. Qaiser Mushtaq, and had cordial relationship with him. In 2000, Dr. Noor Muhammad began to write college-level textbook on topology, however, after his death, the book is remained incompleted.

Death

In 2003, Dr. Noor Muhammad, was diagnosed with a heart ailment. Soon after, he had heart surgery, which he barely survived. His friends and colleague in the Department of Mathematics advised him to take at least a semester off. Dr. Qaiser Mushtaq, who became a new head of the department, managed to arrange a substitute professor Dr. Akbar Azam, who was then teaching at the Government College University.

After about a semester’s respite, Dr Noor Muhammad restarted lecturing in the department. He regularly attended the meetings. According to the Dr. Qaisar Mustaq's memoir, Dr. Noor Muhammad was very tense in the Ph.D Committee Meeting that he attended one day before he died. Dr Noor Muhammad could not take the pressure any more and asked for leave half way through. Next morning, he was pronounced dead. He did not live to marry off his daughter, enjoy driving in his newly bought Toyota car, and publish his book on topology. His death has deprived the Mathematics Department, Quaid-i-Azam University, of its sole Functional Analyst.

Research Papers

• An explicit projection method for a system of nonlinear variational inequalities with different (γ,r)-cocoercive mappings, by Noor Muhammad.
• Double multipliers on topological algebras, L. A. Khan, N. Mohammad, and A. B. Thaheem, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. Volume 22 (1999), Issue 3, Pages 629-636.
• A note on one-parameter groups of automorphisms, A. B. Thaheem and Noor Mohammad, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
• Best approximations in topological vector spaces‎ by Noor Mohammad, A. B. Thaheem - 1987

Bibliography

• Symmetric Topological Algebras and Applications By Noor Muhammad and Maria Fragoulopoulou.
• The Topological Algebra and Mathematics, by Noor Muhammad (Incompleted)

References

1. ^ Mushtaq, Qaiser (2005). "A Manuscript Unpublished". Pakistan Mathematical Society - Newsletter (Islamabad: Pakistan Mathematical Society (PakMS)) 4 (3): 6–8. ISSN 1816-2215. http://www.pakms.org.pk/newsletter/Newsletter%2012.pdf. Retrieved 2010. 
2. ^ Khan, Faisal Shah.; Ali, Muhammad Irfan; Saeed, Muhammad Srawar (2004), "Dr. Noor Muhammad (1951 - 2004)", Pakistan mathemtical Society - Newsletter (Islamabad: Pakistan Mathematical Society) 3 (2): 50–57, ISSN 1816-2215, http://www.pakms.org.pk/newsletter/Newsletter%207.pdf 
3. ^ (ICTP), International Centre for Theoretical Physics (2002). "Noor Muhammad" (in English). News from ICTP (Trieste). http://pio.ictp.it/words/newsletter/backissues/News_109/monitor.html. Retrieved 2010. 

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Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	April 15, 1951
Place of birth	Abbottabad, Haripur District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Date of death	April 12, 2004
Place of death	Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory