Background
Jerison, Meyer was born on November 28, 1922 in Bialystok, Poland. Son of Elia Israel and Esther (Rasky) Jerison. came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1933.
Jerison, Meyer was born on November 28, 1922 in Bialystok, Poland. Son of Elia Israel and Esther (Rasky) Jerison. came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1933.
Bachelor of Science, College City New York, 1943; Master of Science, Brown U., 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1950.
Jerison immigrated in 1929 from Poland to New York City, and was naturalized in 1933. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1943 from City College of New York and a master's degree in applied math in 1947 from Brown University. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1950 from the University of Michigan under Sumner Myers with a dissertation entitled "The Space of Bounded Maps Into a Banach Space."
Jerison worked briefly at NACA in Cleveland and at Lockheed Corporation.
He joined the mathematics faculty at Purdue University in 1951, where he spent the remainder of his career, retiring in 1991.
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Member American Mathematics Society (editor bulletin 1980-1985), American Association of University Professors, Mathematics Association American (commission on undergraduate program in mathematics 1968-1971, governor 1981-1984), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. M C.
Married Miriam Schwartz, August 5, 1945. Children— Michael, David.