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John Jay Gergen (Saint Paul (Minnesota), 17 de abril de 1903 — Duke University Hospital, 1967) foi um matemático estadunidense. Introduziu o critério de Lebesgue–Gergen para a convergência de uma série de Fourier. [1] Foi chefe do Departamento de Matemática da Universidade Duke, de 1937 a julho de 1966. Orientou Walter Rudin ...
John Jay Gergen (April 17, 1903 – January 16, 1967) was an American mathematician who introduced the Lebesgue–Gergen criterion for convergence of a Fourier series. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1925 and a Ph.D. from Rice University in 1928.
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David Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, to John Jay Gergen, the chairman of the mathematics department at Duke University from 1937 to 1966, and Aubigne Munger (née Lermond). He is the youngest of four children, and one of his brothers, Kenneth J. Gergen, is a psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. One of his other brothers was ...
Gergen was educated at Durham High School, a former public high school in his hometown of Durham, North Carolina, where he edited the school newspaper, Hi-Rocket. After high school graduation, he went to Yale University, from which he earned his B.A. degree in American studies in 1963, and was a member of the Manuscript Society. At Yale, he was man...
For three summers, Gergen was an intern in the office of North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, where he became deeply involved in civil rights efforts. Gergen has called this work his “most satisfying experience in public service.” He served in the U.S. Navy for three-and-a-half years and was stationed on a ship home-ported in Japan. Gergen writes...
Gergen has been married since 1967 to Anne Elizabeth Gergen, who is a family therapist. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and have two children and five grandchildren. Their son, Christopher, is a social entrepreneur in North Carolina as well as an author and a member of the Duke University faculty. Their daughter, Katherine, is a family docto...
Gergen has been active on many non-profit boards, and has served on the boards of Yale and Duke Universities. Among his current boards are Teach for America, City Year, Schwab Foundation, the Aspen Institute and the advisory board for the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also chairs the advisory board for the new School of Law at Elon Unive...
Harvard Kennedy School biography Archived 2017-07-11 at the Wayback MachineAppearances on C-SPANDavid Gergen on Charlie Rose3 de abr. de 2020 · The Undergraduate Faculty Council Committee had taken up a study of class attendance, and planned to issue recommendations for policies on “absence limitations.” Its chair was John Jay Gergen, who had been on the faculty at Duke more than 20 years at that point, serving most of them as head of the Mathematics Department.
John J. Gergen Memorial Lectures. Once or twice a year, the Math Department sponsors lectures named in honor of Professor John J. Gergen (1903-1967), former chairman of the department. These lectures feature the prominent mathematicians of our time.
Their father, John Jay Gergen, was chair of the Duke Department of Mathematics from 1937 to 1966. “I grew up in a neighborhood with primarily professors, staff, and so on at the university campus—so it was a tradition I was very familiar with,” Gergen said in a 2011 interview, explaining his career choice.
John Jay Gergen was born at St. Paul, Minnesota on April 17, 1903. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1925 and a Ph.D. from Rice in 1928. From 1928 to 1930, as a National Research fellow, he visited Princton, Oxford, the University of Paris and the University of Clermont.
