University of Toronto Department of Mathematics
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The Department of Mathematics of the University of Toronto
is located at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
is located at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
The Bahen Centre for Information Technology is a building at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. The university website bills it as a "state of the art facility for education of information technology professionals in electrical and computer engineering, computer science and IT...
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Notable current members
- James ArthurJames Arthur (mathematician)James Greig Arthur , is a Canadian mathematician and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is currently in the Mathematics Departmentof the University of Toronto....
, - Edward Barbeau, Professor Emeritus
- Edward Bierstone, Professor, Director of Fields InstituteFields InstituteThe Fields Institute is an international centre for research in mathematical sciences at the University of Toronto. The institute is named for University of Toronto mathematician John Charles Fields, founder of the Fields Medal...
- Chandler Davis, Professor Emeritus
- George Elliott
- John FriedlanderJohn FriedlanderJohn Benjamin Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T...
- Victor Ivrii
- Askold Khovanskii
- Pierre MilmanPierre MilmanPierre D. Milman is a mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto.Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tel Aviv in 1975 after an interlude of several years as researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics...
- Michael Sigal
Outstanding former members
- Samuel BeattySamuel Beatty (mathematician)Samuel Beatty was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Toronto Mississauga, taking the position in 1934.-Early life:Beatty was born in 1881...
- Harold Scott MacDonald CoxeterHarold Scott MacDonald CoxeterHarold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, was a British-born Canadian geometer. Coxeter is regarded as one of the great geometers of the 20th century. He was born in London but spent most of his life in Canada....
- George F. D. DuffGeorge F. D. DuffGeorge Francis Denton Duff was a Canadian mathematician who did research in partial differential equations and wave phenomena. He took an interest in harnessing the extraordinarily large tides in the Bay of Fundy for generating electricity.Duff was a PhD student of Solomon Lefschetz at Princeton...
- John Charles FieldsJohn Charles FieldsJohn Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics...
- John Lighton SyngeJohn Lighton SyngeJohn Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist.-Background:Synge was born 1897 in Dublin, Ireland, in a Protestant family and educated at St. Andrew's College, Dublin. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1915...
Outstanding alumni
- William KahanWilliam KahanWilliam Morton Kahan is a mathematician and computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis", and was named an ACM Fellow in 1994....
- Irving KaplanskyIrving KaplanskyIrving Kaplansky was a Canadian mathematician.-Biography:He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D...
- James Mossman, international investment banker.
- Cathleen Morawetz, former director of the Courant Institute and president of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical SocietyThe American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
. - Ravi VakilRavi VakilRavi D. Vakil is an American-Canadian mathematician working in algebraic geometry.Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he...
, Professor at Stanford University.