Sergey Mergelyan
Armenian mathematician
Sergey Mergelyan was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of... Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1928, Simferopol
Died: August 20, 2008 (age 80 years), Los Angeles, CA
Education: Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (1947–1949) and Yerevan State University (1944–1947)
Parents: Lyudmila Ivanovna Vyrodova and Nikita Ivanovich Mergelov
Award: USSR State Prize (1952)
Doctoral advisors: Mstislav Keldysh; Artashes Shahinyan