Georges Jean Marie Valiron (7 September 1884 – 17 March 1955) was a French mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behaviour of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems.
[1] Valiron obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1914, under supervision of Émile Borel.
He gave a plenary speech at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich and was an invited speaker of the ICM in 1920 in Strasbourg[2] and in 1928 in Bologna.
His treatise on mathematical analysis in two volumes (Théorie des fonctions and Équations fonctionnelles) is a classic and has been translated into numerous languages under diverse titles and has gone through many new editions, both French and non-French.
One of Valiron's doctoral students, Laurent Schwartz, went on to receive a Fields Medal in 1950.