Shahriar Shahriari (born May 30, 1956) is an American mathematician. He is the William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. [1]
Shahriari was born on May 30, 1956, in Tehran, Iran, to Parviz and Zomorod Shahriari. [2] He attended Oberlin College, graduating in 1977, and subsequently received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1986. [1]
Shahriari began teaching at Pomona College in 1989. [1] In 2006, he published a calculus textbook titled Approximately Calculus. [3]
In 1998, Shahriari shared the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award with Dan Kalman and Robert Mena for their paper "Variations on an irrational theme—Geometry, dynamics, algebra". [4] In 2015, he received the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics. [1]