Thomas Ransford

Thomas Joseph Ransford
Born 1958
Greenwich, London
Residence Quebec City, Canada
Citizenship  United Kingdom
Canada
Nationality  United Kingdom
Fields Banach algebras
Potential Theory
Institutions Université Laval
Alma mater Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Thesis Analytic Multivalued Functions (1984)
Doctoral advisor Graham Allan
Doctoral students Sarah Harbottle
Abdelkrim Nokrane
Yin Chen
Jeremie Rostand
Constantin Costara
Sylvain Roy
Mahmood Shabankhah
Majid Jaberi-Douraki
Dominique Guillot
Quentin Rajon
Yasser Farhat
Samir Raouafi
Malik Younsi
Spouse Line Baribeau
Website
www.mat.ulaval.ca/departement-et-professeurs/direction-personnel-et-etudiants/professeurs/fiche-de-professeur/show/ransford-thomas/

Thomas Ransford Ph.D. Sc.D (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 Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1984.[2]

Career

He was a fellow of the Trinity College, University of Cambridge, from 1983 to 1987.[3][4]

In addition to over 70 research papers on mathematics, he has written a research monograph "Potential Theory in the Complex Plane" in 1995.

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 .

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