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.[1][2][3] After a doctorate in Mathematics at New York University supervised by Kurt Otto Friedrichs[4] he taught mathematics at Stanford University and the University of Washington.[1][2] His mathematical research concerned partial differential equations.[1]

Leonard Sarason in 1977

Media

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  • Piano Sonata (1948)

References

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  1. ^ a b c In memory 3/95, Univ. of Washington, retrieved 2015-02-12.
  2. ^ a b 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