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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.

Ransford earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1984.

Career

He was a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, from 1983 to 1987.

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". cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-10-07.
4. Lafleur, Claude (2 November 2013). "Université Laval – Une petite démonstration de mathématiques pures!". Le Devoir.

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