Panorama.am
14:10 23/08/2008
Prominent Armenian Scientist Dies in Los Angeles
On 20 August, Armenian famous mathematician Sergey Mergelyan, founder
of Calculation center of Academy of Science passed away in his house
in Los Angeles were he used to live over past several years.
In the view of this great loss for our country, President Serzh
Sargsyan sent a letter of condolence to the family, students and
colleagues of the famous academician.
`With great grief have I learnt about the death of prominent Armenian
scientist Sergey Mergelyan. He has made a great contribution to the
development of Armenian science. No doubt, that future generation will
remember S. Mergelyan as great scientist, prominent coordinator and
excellent pedagogue,’ the letter says.
Indeed, Sergey Mergelyan made a great achievement in 50-ies of the
past century by creating new discipline in applied mathematics and
calculation sciences. This in its turn made a great fame to Armenia as
well. It was under conduction of S. Mergelyan that Yerevan institute
of scientific studies was founded and the production of contemporary
processor technologies began.
Source: Panorama.am