Norair Hunani Arakelian, often cited as Arakelyan, (Armenian: Նորայր Հունանի Առաքելյան; 17 July 1936 – December 2023) was an Armenian and Soviet mathematician, specializing in approximation theory and complex analysis.
[2] Born in the village of Megrashen, Arakelian enrolled at Yerevan State University (YSU) in 1953 and graduated there in 1958.
In 1962 he received his Ph.D. (Russian candidate degree) from YSU with the thesis Uniform and tangential approximations by entire functions in the complex domain.
After 2005 he was Head of the Department of Complex Analysis at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy Sciences of Armenia.
He was a visiting professor at the Université de Montréal and several western European universities.