Thomas Ransford (born 1958) is a British-born Canadian mathematician, known for his research in spectral theory and complex analysis. He holds a Canada Research Chair in mathematics at Université Laval.[1]
Thomas Joseph Ransford | |
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| Born | 1 November 1958 Greenwich, London, England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | Line Baribeau |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Banach algebras Potential Theory |
| Institutions | Université Laval |
| Thesis | Analytic Multivalued Functions (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Graham Allan |
| Website | www |
Ransford earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1984.[2]
Career
editHe was a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, from 1983 to 1987.[3][4]
In addition to over 90 research papers on mathematics, he has written a research monograph "Potential Theory in the Complex Plane" in 1995, and the graduate book "A Primer on the Dirichlet Space" with Omar El-Fallah, Karim Kellay and Javad Mashreghi in 2014 [1].
He has proved results on potential theory, functional analysis, the theory of capacity, and probability. For example, with Javad Mashreghi he proved the Mashreghi–Ransford inequality. He also derived a short elementary proof of Stone–Weierstrass theorem [2].
References
edit- ^ "Chairholders". chairs-chaires.gc.ca.
- ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Thomas Ransford". nodak.edu.
- ^ "Past Fellows". cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-10-07.
- ^ Lafleur, Claude (2 November 2013). "Université Laval – Une petite démonstration de mathématiques pures!". Le Devoir.
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