George F. D. Duff

This article is about the Canadian mathematician. For the British naval officer, see George Duff.
George F. D. Duff
Born(1926-07-28)July 28, 1926
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedMarch 2, 2001(2001-03-02) (aged 74)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Princeton University
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1959)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Doctoral advisorSolomon Lefschetz

George Francis Denton Duff FRSC (July 29, 1926 – March 2, 2001) was a Canadian mathematician who did research in partial differential equations and wave phenomena. He took an interest in harnessing the extraordinarily large tides in the Bay of Fundy for generating electricity.

While studying at the University of Toronto, Duff became a Putnam fellow in 1948.[1] After that, Duff was a PhD student of Solomon Lefschetz at Princeton University. He became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1952. There, he supervised the Ph.D. theses of 13 students and served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 1968 to 1975.

Duff was the president of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 1971 to 1973.[2] He was an Invited Plenary speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver in 1974.[3]

  1. ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  2. ^ "CMS Presidents" (PDF). Canadian Mathematical Society.
  3. ^ "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". Archived from the original on 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2011-11-28.