Parviz Shahriari

Parviz Shahrijari

Parviz Shahriari (also Schahrijari , born November 23, 1926 in the Iranian province of Kerman , † May 11, 2012 in Tehran ) was a mathematician , teacher , translator , journalist and Iranian political activist. He shaped the mathematical knowledge of entire generations of students in Iran between the 1950s and 1990s.

Life

Parviz Shahriari was born into a Zoroastrian farming family in the central Iranian province of Kerman. Since his father died when Parviz was a toddler, his mother, Golestan Shahriari, had to raise him and his two brothers, Sohrab and Hormoz Shahriari, alone. After nine years at the secondary Iranshahr school in the provincial capital Kerman, Shahriari enrolled in the collegiate Daneshsara-ye Moghaddamati , where he graduated in 1944 at the age of 18. In the same year he moved to Tehran where he enrolled in the Faculty of General Sciences, although he actually wanted to study engineering. At the same time as his studies, he studied at the Daneshsara-ye Alee teacher training college and taught in evening schools. In 1954 he graduated as a mathematician in Tehran and taught in Shiraz , but stayed there for only one year and returned to Tehran. Back he taught at the renowned Andisheh Institute as well as at the teacher training college in Tehran and in the city of Araak . He was involved in the founding of two schools that were later known, the secondary school Khwarizmi for boys and the Marjan school for girls.

In the years 1956 to 1973 Shahriari took a large part in the scientific education of large parts of the Iranian youth. He wrote and translated numerous books in the field of mathematics and its applications as well as basic philosophical works, including the book Mazdak va Mazdakian ( Eng . Mazdak and Mazdakian) about the social revolutionary reformer Mazdak from the early sixth century.

Shahriari published numerous scientific, intellectual and columnist periodicals, including

• Andisheh Ma ,
• Sokhan-e Elmi va Fanni (German Scientific and Technical Commentaries ), 1962–1970
• Danesh va Mardom and
• Chista (1981 - present).

After SAVAK Shahriari made an offer to secretly transfer ownership of the magazine Sokhan-e Elmi va Fanni to SAVAK in return for a monthly salary of 50,000 rials, Shahriari closed the newspaper at the end of 1970.

As a left-wing intellectual, Shahriari was a member of the Moscow-oriented Tudeh party from 1945 , which later supported Khomeini , but was bloodily decimated by the latter after the revolution. Between 1946 and 1948, Shahriari published the political newspaper Ghiam-e Ma ( Our uprising ). After an assassination attempt on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on February 4, 1949 by Nasser Fakhr Araϊ and the ban on the Tudeh party, Shahriari was imprisoned for three months in April 1949. He used the imprisonment time to learn Russian, a skill that later allowed him to translate Russian mathematicians into Persian. While still in custody, he translated the book History of Arithmetic . Shortly after imprisonment, textbooks for teaching the first three grades in secondary schools were published.

Until August 19, 1953, the day of the Mossadegh fall, Shahriari was also the editor of the magazine Vohooman . Between December 1956 and March 1958 and again for 45 days in December 1975, Shahriari was imprisoned for his communist activities.

After the Islamic Revolution , Shahriari was arrested again on April 28, 1983 for membership of the Tudeh Party and remained so until July 22, 1984.

Shahriari had been married to Mozhdeh Behizadeh since 1955 . The marriage produced 5 children: Shahriar (professor at Pomona College in Southern California), Marjan, Mozhdeh, Shervin and Toka. Marjan died in a traffic accident at the age of eight in 1965. At Shahriari's funeral on May 11, 2012, no official representatives of the state or government were present.

Awards

• 1966 Awarded by the Ministry of Education for his service to the nation
• 2001 75th birthday celebration in the presence of numerous leading Iranian scientists and researchers, including many of his former students
• 2002 Honorary Doctorate in Mathematics from Kerman University
• 2002 Establishment of the Parviz Shahriari Foundation by the then President Mohammed Chatemi .
• 2005 Appointment as chehreh-e mandegar-e elmi (German for the memory of immortal scientist )

Web links

Commons : Parviz Shahriyari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tehranbureau: Parviz Shahriari, Mathematician and Activist, This at 85