Meyer Jerison (November 28, 1922 – March 13, 1995) was an American mathematician known for his work in

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and rings, and especially for collaborating with Leonard Gillman on one of the standard texts in the field: ''Rings of Continuous Functions''. Jerison immigrated in 1929 from Poland to

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, and was naturalized in 1933. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1943 from

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and a master's degree in applied math in 1947 from Brown University. In 1945, he married the former Miriam Schwartz. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1950 from the

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under Sumner Myers with a dissertation entitled "The Space of Bounded Maps Into a Banach Space." Jerison worked briefly at

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and at

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. He joined the mathematics faculty at

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in 1951, where he spent the remainder of his career, retiring in 1991.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerison, Meyer 1922 births 1995 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians Polish emigrants to the United States Brown University alumni University of Michigan alumni Purdue University faculty