Shahriar Shahriari

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Shahriar Shahriari (born May 30, 1956) is an American mathematician. He is the William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. [1]

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Early life and education

Shahriari was born on May 30, 1956, in Tehran, Iran, to Parviz and Zomorod Shahriari. [2] He attended Oberlin College, graduating in 1977, and subsequently received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1986. [1]

Career

Shahriari began teaching at Pomona College in 1989. [1] In 2006, he published a calculus textbook titled Approximately Calculus. [3]

Recognition

In 1998, Shahriari shared the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award with Dan Kalman and Robert Mena for their paper "Variations on an irrational theme—Geometry, dynamics, algebra". [4] In 2015, he received a Mathematical Association of America Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Shahriar Shahriari". Pomona College. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Shahriari, Shahriar 1956-". Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. ↑ Bressoud, David (2013). "Review". The American Mathematical Monthly . 120 (6): 577–580. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.06.577. ISSN   0002-9890. S2CID   218543048.
  4. ↑ "Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
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