Shahriar Shahriari

Shahriar Shahriari is the William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. He teaches a variety of courses including Honors Calculus, Linear Algebra, Combinatorics, Abstract Algebra, and Operations Research. His research interests are in Combinatorics of partially ordered sets. He has over 50 publications (books, research and expository papers) in mathematics. Shahriari was a co-recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's 2015 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics, as well as the winner of the 2014 Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematics Association of America's Teaching Award. In addition, he has won Pomona College's college-wide Wig distinguished teaching award (based on the votes of junior and senior students) five times (1993, 1999, 2008, 2013, 2018). His first book, Approximately Calculus, was chosen as an American Library Association’s Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2007, and he won the Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for expository writing in 1998. Shahriari is on the editorial board of "Order" and "Math Horizons".