Donald Sarason

Donald Sarason
Donald Sarason in January, 2003 at UC Berkeley
Born(1933-01-26)January 26, 1933
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
DiedApril 8, 2017(2017-04-08) (aged 84)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Known forHardy space theory and VMO
AwardsSloan Research Fellow, 1969–1971
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor
Paul Halmos
Doctoral students
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Sheldon Axler
Thomas Wolff
John Doyle
John McCarthy

Donald Erik Sarason (January 26, 1933 – April 8, 2017) was an American mathematician whose research topics included Hardy space theory and VMO. As a professor at the University of California, Berkeley he became the doctoral advisor of 39 graduate students.