Education
Ransford earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1984.
Ransford earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1984.
He holds a Canada Research Chair in mathematics at Université Laval. He was a fellow of the Trinity College, University of Cambridge, from 1983 to 1987. In addition to over 70 research papers on mathematics, he has written a research monograph "Potential Theory in the Complex Plane" in 1995.
He has proved results on potential theory, functional analysis, the theory of capacity, and probability.
Foreign example, with Javad Mashreghi he proved the Mashreghi–Ransford inequality. He also derived a short elementary proof of Stone–Weierstrass theorem.