George Piranian

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George Piranian (born May 2, 1914 in Thalwil outside Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss-American mathematician, well known for several publications and contributions to his field.^[1]

His family moved to Logan, Utah (1929) where Piranian received a B.Sc. in agriculture and M.Sc. in botany (1937) at Utah State University in Salt Lake City, followed by a Ph.D. in mathematics under Szolem Mandelbrot at Rice University (1943), the dissertation entitled A Study of the Position and Nature of the Singularities of Functions Given by Their Taylor Series.^[2] Piranian joined the faculty at University of Michigan (1945), working with Paul Erdős, Fritz Herzog and Arthur J. Lohwater, founding Michigan Mathematical Journal (1952) which he edited (1954-). Piranian at one point taught and advised Theodore Kaczynski, then a Ph.D. student in mathematics.^[3]

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