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Leonard Sarason (1925 – September 24, 1994) was a music composer, a pianist, and a mathematician. He earned a master's degree music composition from Yale University, supervised by Paul Hindemith. After a doctorate in Mathematics at New York University supervised by Kurt Otto Friedrichs he taught mathematics at Stanford University and the University of Washington. His mathematical research concerned partial differential equations.

Media

• Piano Sonata (1948)

References

1. ^ In memory 3/95, Univ. of Washington, retrieved 2015-02-12.
2. ^ The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at http://www.ibiblio.org/pandora/mp3/contrib/Martha_Goldstein_Live/Readme
3. Hersh, Reuben; John-Steiner, Vera (2010), Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life, Princeton University Press, p. 80, ISBN 9781400836116.
4. Leonard Sarason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Yale University alumni
• New York University alumni
• Stanford University faculty
• University of Washington faculty
• American male composers
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• 1925 births
• 1994 deaths
• 20th-century American composers
• 20th-century American male musicians