John Wermer was a mathematician specializing in
complex analysis
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.
Wermer received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University
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in 1951 under the supervision of
George Whitelaw Mackey. He became an instructor at
Yale University
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, after which he was hired as a professor at
Brown University
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in 1954. He retired in 1994.
In 1962 Wermer was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in Stockholm.
In 2012, Wermer became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
On August 29, 2022, Wermer died in
Providence,
Rhode Island
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at the age of 95.
References
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Harvard University alumni
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