Thomas Ransford

Thomas Joseph Ransford
Born	(1958-11-01) 1 November 1958 (age 67) 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.mat.ulaval.ca/departement-et-professeurs/direction-personnel-et-etudiants/professeurs/fiche-de-professeur/show/ransford-thomas/

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]

Ransford earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1984. ^[2]

Career

He 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 .

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 .

References

1. "Chairholders". chairs-chaires.gc.ca.
2. "The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Thomas Ransford". nodak.edu.
3. "Past Fellows". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014.
4. Lafleur, Claude (2 November 2013). "Université Laval – Une petite démonstration de mathématiques pures!". Le Devoir.