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WAS A NOTABLE ARMENIANS MATHEMATICIAN WHO MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF FUNCTIONS HARMONIC ANALYSIS THEORY OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS AND A FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF UNIVALENT ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS
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HE WAS BORN IN YEREVAN IN A FAMILY OF REFUGEES FROM THE TOWN VAN OF WESTERN ARMENIA ESCAPING FROM THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 IN TURKEY
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MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN CREATED SOME WELL-KNOWN MATHEMATICAL THEORIES AND DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL TO THE HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN MANY BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS.
• MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN WAS BORN IN YEREVAN ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. BEING DEPRIVED OF CONTINUING HIS EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET UNION IN YEREVAN, HE ACCOMPLISHED HIS SCHOOL EDUCATION IN TIFLIS IN 1936, THANKS TO THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS UNCLES FAMILY. BACK IN YEREVAN AFTER STALIN'S DECLARATION THAT "CHILDREN ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR PARENTS", MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN COULD ENROLL IN YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY WHERE HIS SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES WERE ENCOURAGED BY PROF. ARTASHES SHAHINIAN, A TALENTED TEACHER WHO DIRECTED HIS PUPILS MAINLY TO APPROXIMATION THEORY MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE RESULTS OF ROLF NEVANLINNA IN COMPLEX ANALYSIS WHICH HE STUDIED ATTENDING LECTURES DELIVERED BY MSTISLAV KELDYSH AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1944.
SCIENCES THESIS IN MATHEMATICS AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1945, WITH SOME NEW, ORIGINAL RESULTS ON WEIGHTED NEVANLINNA CLASSES OF MEROMORPHIC FUNCTIONS (SEE SECTION 216 IN LT;/REF>). IN 1949 MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN DEFENDED HIS DOCTOR OF SCIENCE THESIS IN MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY WITH EXCELLENT REFERENCES FROM PROF. MSTISLAV KELDYSH PROF. ALEXANDER GELFOND AND PROF. ALEXEI MARKUSHEVICH RU МАРКУШЕВИЧ, АЛЕКСЕЙ ИВАНОВИЧ BEING THE LEADING FIGURE IN THE MATHEMATICS OF ARMENIA, A FULL MEMBER OF ARMENIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FROM 1956, MKHITAR DJRBASHIAN DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL TO THE HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN MANY BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS. HE WAS THE FOUNDER AND THE DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF ARMENIA (1971–1989), THEN THE HONORARY DIRECTOR OF THE SAME INSTITUTE UP TO HIS DEATH ON MAY 6, 1994 OF A HEART ATTACK.
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• HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF IZVESTIYA NATSIONALNOI AKADEMII NAUK ARMENII, MATEMATIKA (ENGLISH TRANSLATION: JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, ARMENIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ALLERTON PRESS INC.) AND ITS EDITOR IN CHIEF (1971–1994), THE DEAN OF THE PHYSICALMATHEMATICAL AND THEN MECHANICAL-MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT OF YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY (1957–1960), AND THE HEAD OF THE CHAIR OF FUNCTION THEORY (1978– 1986).