Dikran Tahta

Maths teacher of Stephen Hawking Dikran Tahta was a British mathematician, teacher and author. He was also the maths teacher of Stephen Hawking. Early Life Dikran Tahta was a descendant of Istanbul-based Armenian family of cotton merchants. His father, Kevork Tahtabrounian, (1895–1980), settled in Manchester with his wife in 1927, after the First World War and the Armenian genocide, shortening his surname to Tahta. Kevork run […]