Peter Larkin Duren (April 30, 1935 – July 10, 2020)[1] was an American mathematician.
Duren received in 1956 his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and in 1960 his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under Gian-Carlo Rota with thesis Spectral theory of a class of non-self-adjoint infinite matrix operators.
As a professor, Duren served on the thesis committee of Ted Kaczynski.
[3] Duren was in 1968/69 at the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1975 a visiting professor at the Technion in Haifa, in 1964/65 a visiting scientist at Imperial College and the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, in 1982 a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and in 1982/83 at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the University of Paris-Sud and at the ETH Zürich.
He was a co-editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and a festschrift for Frederick Gehring.