Zuhair Nashed

Background

Nashed was born on May 14, 1936 in Aleppo, Syria; the son of Zaki Nashed and Nabiha Mosalati.

Education

Nashed received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. A year later he earned his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university. In 1963, Zuhair received a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Career

Nashed began his career as an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1963. Two years later he took a position of an associate professor at that institute. Then in 1969, Zuhair became a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1977, he was appointed a professor of mathematics and electrical engineering at the University of Delaware.

Zuhair served as a professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Central Florida from 2002 to 2006. Since 2007 Nashed has been a professor emeritus at that university. He was a visiting associate at American University of Beirut.

He is the founding editor of the journal "Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization" and the founding co-editor of the Journal of Integral Equations and Applications.

Achievements

• Nashed is known for his books, including "Frontiers in Orthogonal Polynomials and q-Series", "Spherical Sampling" and "Integral Methods in Science and Engineering".

Works

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  • Frontiers in Orthogonal Polynomials and q-Series

    (This volume aims to highlight trends and important direct...)

  • Spherical Sampling

    (This book presents, in a consistent and unified overview,...)

  • Integral Methods in Science and Engineering: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

    (The book, consisting of twenty seven selected chapters pr...)

    2006

Membership

Nashed is a member of American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Connections

On December 23, 1959 Zuhair Nashed married Ragda Yagan. They have four children.

Father:

Zaki Nashed

He was a prominent businessman in theimport and export trade.

Mother:

Nabiha Mosalati

Spouse:

Ragda Yagan

child:

Zaki Nashed

child:

Zane Nashed

child:

Ziad Nashed

child:

Nadia Nashed