Dick Jarvinen, 72, passed away on July 6, 2011. Read more about his life here (pdf).
Richard Gustafson, 79, passed away on July 4, 2011. Read more about his life here.
Claire Krukenberg, 71, passed away on June 20, 2011. An MAA member since 1969, read more about his life here.
Hubert Ludwig, 76, passed away on June 19, 2011. An MAA member since 1964, read more about his life here.
Jean Drach passed away on June 13, 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of Calculus" by students at The College of Mount St. Joseph, she has been an MAA member since 1963. Read more about her life here.
Howard Wicke, 87, passed away on June 6, 2011. An MAA member since 1952, read more about his life here.
J. Ernest Wilkins, 87, passed away on May 1, 2011. An MAA member since 1947, read more about his life here.
David R. Hayes, 73, passed away April 10, 2011. An MAA member since 1964, read more about his life here.
Ronald Nunke, 85, passed away April 3, 2011. An MAA member since 1957, read more about his life here.
John L. Brown, 85, passed away on February 20, 2011. An MAA member since 1952, read more about his life here.
Monica Wyzalek, 77, passed away on January 13, 2011. An MAA member since 1954, read more about her life here.
John E. Osborn, 74, passed away on May 30, 2011. An MAA member since 1972, read more about his life here.
Keith Schrader, 72, passed away on December 27, 2010. An MAA member since 2007, read more about his life here.
Hughes Hoyle, 67, died on November, 25, 2010. MAA member since 1946. Read more about his life here.
Marlene Guers died on November 19, 2010. An instructor of mathematics at Penn State Hazleton since 1981, she became a member of MAA in 1993. Read more about her life here.
Bernard Sohmer, 81, passed away on November 10, 2010. An MAA member since 1959, read more about his life here.
Peter J. Hilton, 87, died on November 6, 2010. Author and distinguished professor at Binghamton University, Hilton served as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park alongside Alan Turing during World War II. He joined MAA in 1964. Read more about his life here.
Edward Nelson, died on October 26, 2010. MAA member since 1951. Read more about his life here.
Peter Hagerty, 87, died on October 22, 2010. Read more about his life here.
Constance Reid, 92, died on October 14, 2010. A highly respected author and biographer of mathematicians, Reid won many MAA awards for her mathematical exposition. She joined MAA in 1988. Read more about her life here.
Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, died October 14, 2010. Mandelbrot coined the term "fractal" and his seminal work, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), turned fractals into a respectable idea in mathematics. Read more about his life here.
Jerry Marsden, 68, died on September 21, 2010. Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech since 1992, Marsden joined MAA in 1974. Read more about his life here.
Richard Maher, 67, died on September 14, 2010. An MAA member since 1971, Maher served as an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Loyola University of Chicago. Read more about his life here.
Kim Ray Penrose, 66, died on September 6, 2010. An MAA member since 1967, he worked as a simulation engineer at CEI. Read more about his life here.
Joan Morrison, 63, died on August 20, 2010. A member of the MAA since 2004, Morrison joined the Goucher mathematics department in 1980. Read more about her life here.
Wayne Lingle, 62, passed away July 28, 2010. An MAA member since 1970, read more about his life here.
Marie Wurster died on July 26, 2010. A dedicated professor of mathematics at Temple University, Wurster joined MAA in 1947. Read more about her life here.
Barbara (Bloom) Ranson, 60,died on July 26, 2010. A geotechnical engineer and teacher of mathematics, she had been a member of MAA since 2003. Read more about her life here.
David Harold Blackwell, 91, died on July 8, 2010. Emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, Blackwell was the first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He joined MAA in 1953. The National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) David Blackwell Lecture is presented annually at MathFest, MAA's summer meeting. Read more about his life here.
Vivian Heigl, 86, died on July 3, 2010. She joined MAA in 1949. She served as a mathematics lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside, retiring in 1995. Read more about her life here.
James A. Hummel, 82, died on June 23, 2010. Hummel served as mathematics professor at University of Maryland from 1957 to 1993. He joined MAA in 1951. Read more about his life here.
William F. Lucas, 77, died on June 7, 2010. He had been an MAA member since 1962. Lucas was a world-renowned expert in Game Theory who specialized in fair-division and voting systems. Read more about his life here.
Leo J. Schneider, died suddenly on June 6, 2010. Schneider was one of the country's premier mathematical problem posers and a longtime member of the MAA. Read more about his life here.
Vladimir Arnold, 73, died on June 3, 2010. Read more about the life of this wide-ranging mathematician here.
Alphonso DiPietro, 88, died on May 31, 2010. DiPietro was a mathematics professor at Eastern Illinois University for 50 years. Read more about his life here. DiPietro had been an MAA member since 1959.
Martin Gardner, 95, died on May 22, 2010. Acclaimed mathematics and science writer, Gardner introduced readers to the joys of recreational mathematics, bedeviled cranks, and pseudoscientists. Read more about his life here.
MAA and ThinkFun hosted a reception to celebrate Gardner's work and continue his pursuit of a playful and fun approach to mathematics, science, art, magic, literature, philosophy, and puzzles, on what would have been Gardner's 96th birthday. Read more about that event here.
MAA Tribute to Martin Gardner Page
Walter Rudin, 89, died May 20, 2010. A mathematician and author, Rudin taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 30 years. For more on his life click here.
Paul Garabedian, 82, died on May 13, 2010. Garabedian lead the division of computational fluid dynamics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Read more about his life here.
Robert Jules Levit, 94, died on May 13, 2010. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by the Secretary of Defense for materially aiding in the successful prosecution of the war for the analysis, design and development of cryptographic technologies and tools used to secure and protect Naval communications during World War II. He joined the MAA in 1947. Read more about his life here.
Sanford Segal, 72, died May 7, 2010. Segal was professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Rochester where he taught for 44 years before retiring in 2008. Read more about his life here. Segal had been an MAA member since 1958.
James Robert Wesson, 88, died April 25, 2010. A mathematician at Vanderbilt University and author of an influential algebra textbook, Wesson had been an MAA member since 1949. Read more about his life here.
Dorothy Knight, 94, died on April 21, 2010. An MAA member since 1942, she taught mathematics at Muskingum College for the 41 years. Read more about her life here.
Robert Bryan, 87, died on April 13, 2010. Professor emeritus of mathematics at Knox College, Bryan joined MAA in 1963. Read more about his life here.
Richard Stauduhar, 69, died on March 26, 2010. He was a retired mathematician from the SETI Institute and UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab in California. Stauduhar had been an MAA member since 1989.
Eric Avern Sturley, 95, died on March 23, 2010. An MAA member since 1949, Sturley served as an interpreter and intelligence officer in the US Army during World War II. Read more about his life here.
John A. Berton, 79, died on March 23, 2010. Berton earned his PhD from the University of Illinois-Champaign in 1964. He taught at the University of Illinois, Indiana State University and Ripon College before moving to Ohio Northern University where he retired in 1996. Berton had been an MAA member since 1959. For more on his life click here.
Eric A. Sturley died on March 23, 2010. He had been a member of MAA since 1949. Read more about his life here (pdf).
George W. Heigho, 77, died on March 19, 2010. Heigho held graduate degrees in history of science and mathematics from Harvard University and Boston University. He was an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Suffolk University, MA, before working for IBM. He retired from IBM in 1995 as a Senior Information Developer. For more on his life click here.
Alice Beckenbach, 93, died on March 18, 2010. A lifetime member of the MAA, she was married to Edwin Beckenbach, a long-time leader in the publications program of the Association and a well-known professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. The Beckenbach Book Prize is named in his honor.
Ts'ing-Hi Tong, 86, died on March 18, 2010, in Jacksonville, Illinois. He was a faculty member in the mathematics department of Illinois College from 1964 until his retirement in 1993. He taught the college's very first computer programming course (Spring, 1966). After living in the Shanghai region in China, and then Saigon, Vietnam, he moved to the U.S. and received his B.A. in mathematics (with minor in French) from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) in 1961, and M.S. in mathematics from DePaul University (Chicago) in 1963. He was an MAA member from 1964-2004.
Dean C. Benson died on March 18, 2010. Benson earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics at Iowa State University and was a professor at several colleges, ending with 23 years at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. An MAA member since 1954, he served on MAA's Board of Governors and remained an Honorary Member. Read more about his life here.
Mary Elizabeth Layne Boas, 92, passed away on February 17, 2010. Boas earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1938 and 1940, and her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1948. She taught physics at DePaul University in Chicago for three decades before retiring in 1987. In 2006 she published the third edition of her textbook Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. Boas had been an MAA member 1972 - 2003. For more on her life click here.
Alan Goldman, 77, passed away on February 13, 2010. Goldman earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1956 and worked in operations research at the National Bureau of Standards until 1979.In 1979 he moved to Johns Hopkins University where he remained until 1999. For more on his life click here. He had been an MAA member since 1951.
Lester Dubins, 89, passed away on February 11, 2010. Dubins was a distinguished probabilist who joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. He remained there until his retirement in 2004. He been an MAA member since 1956. Christopher L. Byrnes, 60, passed away on February 7, 2010. Byrnes earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975, and taught at the University of Utah, Harvard University and Arizona State University where he founded the Center for Engineering Research. Byrnes went on to become the dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis. At the time of his death he was a visiting professor in optimization and systems theory at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He had been an MAA member since 2007. For more on his life click here.William Donald "Bill" Markel, 77, died on February 5, 2010. He had been an MAA member since 1949. Passionate about fitness, music, and mathematics, Markel served as a professor of mathematics and chair of the department of education at Hanover College from 1987 to 2002. Read more about his life here.
Richard Lashof, 87, passed away on February 4, 2010. Lashof earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1954 and joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. He received a post doctoral fellowship from NSF in 1959 and during 1960-61 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ. Lashof helped transform the field of geometric and differential topology into an important mathematical force. He had been an MAA member since 1961. For more on his life click here.
Steve Fisk, 63, passed away on January 31, 2010 after a long battle with leukemia. Fisk earned his PhD from Harvard and accepted a post-doctoral teaching postion at MIT. He moved to Bowdoin College in 1977 where he remained until his death. Many in the mathematics community will remember him through his proof of the Art Gallery Theorem. Fisk had been an MAA member since 1962. For more on his life click here . James F. Hannan 87, passed away on January 26, 2010. Hannan earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had been a professor of statistics and probability at Michigan State University. He had been an MAA member since 1956. Warren Loud, 88, passed away on January 15, 2010. Loud earned his PhD from MIT, and taught at the University of Minnesota for 45 years. He served as associate chair of the math department in the 1960s, and was the founder and adviser for the university's math team. Loud received Institute of Technology Alumni Society's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1979. His specialty was ordinary differential equations. He had been an MAA member since 1947. For more on his life click here. Michael E. Moody, 57, passed away on January 21, 2010. Moody earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1979, and taught at Washington State University from 1981 to 1994. He then moved to Harvey Mudd College, serving as department chair from 1996 to 2002. Largely as a result of his leadership, HMC's math department was awarded the AMS's inaugural award for an Exemplary Mathematics Program in 2006. In 2002, he moved to Olin College where he served as its VP for Academic Affairs and founding Dean of Faculty. He had been an MAA member since 1996. For more on his life, click here. . Frederick H. Steen, 102, died on January 13, 2010. Steen received his PhD from Harvard University and taught at Georgia Tech for eight years. He then moved on to Allegheny College where he remained for 33 years. He had been an MAA member since 1935. For more on his life click here Eugene Pringle, 70, died on January 5, 2010. He had been an MAA member since 1961.D. Bruce Erickson, 66, died on December 23, 2009. He had been an MAA member since 1963. For more on his life click here.
William Duffie, 74, died on December 23, 2009. He had been an MAA member since 1973.
Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom, 82, died on December 2, 2009. Hamstrom earned her PhD from the University of Texas with R.L. Moore as her advisor. She held several teaching positions starting with Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. From there she moved to the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Hamstrom then moved to the University of Illinois where she remained until her retirement in 1999. She had been an MAA member since 1959. For more on her life click here. Howard L. Penn, died suddenly of a heart attack on November 23, 2009. Penn was very active in the Maryland-DC-Virginia section of the MAA, holding several positions including chairman. He was also a frequent speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meetings and MathFest. He had been scheduled to give a talk on Mathematics and Sports at the upcoming Joint Meetings in San Francisco. Penn had been an MAA member since 1974. For more on his life click here. Floyd Bowling, 98, died on November 23, 2009. Bowling earned his PhD at the University of Tennessee and taught at Tennessee Wesleyan College. He had been an MAA member since1941. For more on his life click here. Martha Bettina Richmond, 51, died on November 22, 2009. She was the victim of a homicide. Richmond had been a professor of mathematics at Western Kentucky University for the past 23 years. She had been an MAA member since 1982. For more on this click here. Alfred Gaetano Vassalotti, 80, died on October 21, 2009. Vassalotti earned his masters in mathematics from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He taught mathematics at Hofstra University from 1961 to 1997. He had been an MAA member since 1964 Frank Samuel Beckman, 88, died on October 16, 2009. Beckman received his Bachelors in mathematics from City College in New York City, and his Masters and PhD from Columbia University. After receiving his PhD in 1951 he went to work for IBM. In 1971 Beckman moved to Brooklyn College where he was the chair and founder of the Computer and Information Science Center. He held that position until 1985 when he moved to CUNY Graduate Center in New York City as the founder and executive director for the computer science PhD department. Beckman had been an MAA member since 1947. For more on his life click here. Melvin Henriksen, 82, passed away on October 14, 2009. A significant portion of his career was spent at Harvey Mudd College, where he served as Professor of Mathematics from 1969 to 1997. Henriksen earned his PhD from Wisconsin in 1951, and taught at Alabama, Wayne State, Purdue, and Case Western before coming to HMC. Henriksen did pioneering work on rings of continuous functions. He served as co-editor (with Stan Wagon) on a column in The American Mathematical Monthly on The Teaching of Mathematics. For more on his life, click here. Leonard David Berkovitz, 85, died on October 13, 2009. Berkovitz began his studies as a chemistry major at the University of Chicago, but after serving in World War II he changed course and went on to obtain his Masters and PhD in mathematics. He spent time as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and at CalTech as a research fellow. In 1962 Berkovitz joined the faculty of Purdue University where he remained until his retirement. He had been an MAA member since 1962. For more on his life click here. J.A. Zilber (Joseph A.) died on October 4, 2009 after a long battle with Parkinsons disease. He was an associate Editor of Math Reviews from 1958 until 1962 when he began teaching at Ohio State University. He received his AB, MA, and PhD from Harvard. He co- authored the paper with Samuel Eilenberg which became known as the Eilenberg-Zilber theorum. He was a member of MAA for more than 60 years.Gary Regensburg, 59, died on September 28, 2009. He was a graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and worked as an engineer at Ortho-McNeil. He had been an MAA member since 1985. For more on his life click here.
Alice T. Schafer, 94 died on September 27, 2009. Schafer received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1942. She taught at several colleges during her career, spending most of it at Connecticut College. She moved on to Wellesley College where she retired in 1980 as the Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics. After her retirement she taught at Simmons College and at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. Professor Schafer was given the MAA's Award for Distinguished Service in 1988. She had been an MAA member since 1953. For more on her life click here. Donald G. Duncan, 89, passed away on September 23, 2009. Duncan earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1951, and taught at the University of Arizona and San Jose State University. He then moved to Sonoma State University in 1963 and served as its first chair of the mathematics department. He had been a member of the MAA since 1951. For more on his life click here. James O. Brooks, 79 died on September 12, 2009 of Parkinson's disease. He earned his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, his Masters and his PhD from the University of Michigan. Brooks taught mathematics at Villanova University from 1965 to 1994. He had been an MAA member since 1960. For more on his life click here Donald Dean Bushell, 79 died on September 12, 2009 at his home in Durango, CO. Bushell graduated from Kearney State University. After a stint in the army he began a teaching career that spanned 53 years. He had been an MAA member since 1963. For more on his life click here Robert Davis, 90 died on September 12, 2009. He was a retired professor from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and had been an MAA member since 1953. James Tyson, 89 passed away in September. He had been an MAA member since 1991. Martin Bates, 83, died on August 22, 2009. Bates attended Cornell University where he studied engineering, mathematics, and physics completing both a bachelors degree and a Masters degree. After graduation Bates went to work for Bell Aircraft. Several years later he joined Sierra Research Corporation where he remained until his retirement in 1997. He had been an MAA member since 1949. For more on his life click here. Agnes Wieschenberg, 71, died on August 22, 2009. She had been an MAA member since 1972. J. Richard VandeVelde, 74, died on August 12, 2009. He had been an MAA member since 1962. Stephen Whitman Willard, 67, passed away on August 7, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Willard earned his PhD from the University of Rochester, and held positions at Lehigh University and Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at the University of Alberta. He is perhaps best known for his book General Topology which was published in 1970 and is still in print today.He had been an MAA member since 1963. David Meronk, 74 died on July 30, 2009 in Perrysburg, OH. Meronk received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and his MS and PhD from Notre Dame University. He began teaching at St. Mary of the Springs College (now known as Ohio Dominican). He moved to Bowling Green State University in 1967 and stayed until his retirement in 1995. He had been an MAA member since 1970. For more on his life click here. Harold P. Edmundson, 87 died on July 9, 2009. Edmundson received his PhD from UCLA. During the mid-50s he worked at NSA and the RAND Corporation think tank. During this time he also taught mathematics at UCLA. In 1967 he moved to teaching full time settling at the University of Maryland in the computer science department where he stayed until his retirement in 1991. For more on his life click here. Edmundson had been an MAA member since 1946. Frederick N. Webb, 64, died on July 12, 2009. Webb received his Masters in computer science from Boston University. He worked as a computer scientist for his entire career. While at Bolt, Beranek and Newman he helped develop tools for the internet. At the time of his death he was working for Total View Technology. He had been an MAA member since 1990. For more on his life click here. Joseph Zelle, 97, died on July 11, 2009. Zelle was a radio engineer and a translator. He had been an MAA member since 1985. James Hatton Wahab, 88, died on July 8, 2009. Dr. Wahab received his undergraduate degree from William and Mary, and his masters' and PhD from the University of North Carolina. He held teaching positions at Georgia Tech, the University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, Louisiana State University in New Orleans as Chairman, William & Mary in Norfolk, VA, University of North Carolina - Charlotte as Chairman and Academic Dean, Rollins College and the University of North Florida. From 1968 to 1983 Wahab taught at the University of South Carolina serving as chair of the math department from 1968-1973. He was also very active in the Southeastern section of the MAA serving as chair twice.He was a visiting lecturer and also was a distinguished teaching award winner. Klaus Fisher, 65, died on July 2, 2009. Fisher received his PhD in 1973 from Northwestern University. He joined the faculty of George Mason University in 1973 and had been serving his second term as chair of the mathematical sciences department at the time of his death. He had been a member of the MAA since 1986. For more on his life click here. Sam Perlis, 96, died on June 22, 2009. Perlis received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1938. He taught at the University of Michigan and Illinois Institute of Technolgy. He was also employed by Lockheed Aircraft during World War II. In 1946 he moved to West Lafayette, IN where he taught at Purdue University until his retirement in 1983. Perlis is best remembered for his 1942 discovery of a mathematical technique now called the Perlis-Jacobson radical, for the 1950 Perlis-Walker Theorem, and for his book Theory of Matrices, published in 1952. He had been an MAA member since 1963. For more on his life click here. Rita Wagner, 88, died on June 19, 2009. She had been an MAA member since 1960.Gordon Raisbeck, 84, died June 15, 2009. He was an MAA member since 1949. Read more about his life here.
Marion Pour-El , 81, died on June 10, 2009. Pour-El received her bachelor's degree in physics from Hunter College. She received a full scholarship to Harvard University where she received a Masters and a PhD. She was one of the first women to receive a PhD in mathematics. After receiving her PhD she spent several years teaching at Penn State before moving to the Institute for Advanced Studies where she worked with Kurt Gödel. In 1964 she joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota where she remained until her retirement in 2000. She had been an MAA member since 1961. For more on her life click here.
Don Hill, 67, died on June 10, 2009. Professor Hill received his PhD from Florida State University and taught mathematics for 35 years at Florida A&M University. Hill was active in the MAA serving as a governor on MAA's Board of Governors. He was also a delegate to the Fifth International Congress on Mathematical Education and was named as the first visiting scholar to the United Methodist Africa University in Zimbabwe. Hill was named by Florida A&M University's Black Archives Research Center and Museum to their wall of distinction. He donated many rare and unique African artifacts that he gathered on his many trips to that continent. Hill had been an MAA member for 36 years. Tyre Newton, 88, died on June 10, 2009 after a short battle with cancer. Newton received his BS in mathematics from Colorado A & M. He earned his M.A. and PhD from the University of Georgia. Newton taught at the University of Nebraska and Colorado A&M before moving to the Washington State University where he remained until his retirement in 1987. Newton had been an MAA member since 1950. For more on his life click here. Clarence E. Hardgrove died on June 2, 2009. She was on the faculty of Northern Illinois University from 1950 until her retirement in 1978. Hardgrove served as a member of the Panel of Teacher Training of the MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics. She had been a long time member of the MAA. Alvin M. White, 84, died on June 2, 2009. White received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, his master's from UCLA, and his PhD from Stanford. In 1962 White joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd College where he remained until his retirement in 1997. In 1993 he edited Essays in Humanistic Mathematics for the MAA. White had been a long time member of the MAA. For more on his life click here. Charles J.A. Halberg, Jr.,, 87, died on June 1, 2009. He received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and Pomona College. He earned his M.A. and PhD from UCLA. Halberg spent most of his career at the University of California, Riverside. He was very active in campus affairs and was responsible for many innovations. For more on Halberg's life click here. Takayuki Tamura died on June 1, 2009. He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of California, Davis. He had been an MAA member since 1960. Charles Chambers, 67, died on May 20, 2009. Chambers received his B.S., MS, and PhD in physics from the University of Alabama. He was a world renowned researcher, educator, counselor, engineer, and administrator. Chambers served as the fifth president of Lawrence Technological University, LTU, in Southfield, MI. He was an expert in accreditation and led many accrediting teams to universities in the North Central Region. Chambers was also a consultant to Congress and numerous federal science and education agencies, major foundations, and other organizations. He had been an MAA member since 1975. For more on his life click here. Alan Meyerhoff, 83, died on May 19, 2009. He had been an MAA member since 1964. Chuan-Chih Hsiung, 93, died on May 6, 2009. Dr. Hsiung was a leading mathematician in the field of differential geometry and was the founder of the Journal of Differential Geometry. He was professor emeritus at Lehigh University where he had taught for 56 years. Hsiung had been an MAA member since 1948. For more on his life click here. Harry Hochstadt, 83, died May 4, 2009. Hochstadt received his PhD in 1956 from New York University. He was the head of the math department at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1963 to 1990. He was an MAA member since 1962. Susan Patterson, 68 died on April 18, 2009 after a long battle with cancer.She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MS from Clemson University. Patterson taught mathematics at Erskine College for nine years before moving to Greenwood, SC where she taught at Cambridge Academy. She had been an MAA member since 1972. For more on her life click here. Edward Harris, 84, died on April 11, 2009. He had been an MAA member since 1959. Frederik De Jong, 53, died on April 8, 2009 of cancer. De Jong obtained his PhD in aerospace engineering from Cornell University. He began his career as a research scientist at Senior Research Associates in Glastonbury, CT. He had been working as a senior engineer at Pratt and Whitney. De Jong had been an MAA member since 1985. Leonard Gillman, 92, died on April 7, 2009. Gillman was a former president and treasurer of the MAA, and an Emeritus professor at the University of Texas. He was known for his work in topology and had an Erdös number of 1. For more on Gillman's life click here. Margaret C. Phillips, 94, passed away on April 5, 2009. Phillips was professor emerita from Old Dominion University where she began teaching in 1945 and stayed until her retirement in 1979. Phillips had been an MAA member since 1966. Irving Good, 92, died on April 5, 2009 in Radford, VA. He was one of the founders of modern Bayesian inference and had been a member of the code-breaking team at Bletchley Park during World War II. He was educated in mathematics at Cambridge University. Good worked for the College of Science in Britain and held professorships at Virginia Tech in the Center for the Study of Science in Society and the Department of Philosophy. He had been a member of the MAA since 1960. For a more complete obituary click here. Arthur Lindberg, 84, died on March 26, 2009. He taught mathematics at Dana College in Blair, NE and at Mankato State College. He had been an MAA member since 1950. For more on his life click here. Edgar A. Franz, 89 died on March 16, 2009 in Jacksonville, Illinois. Franz began his career as an electrical engineer for Western Electric Company in Chicago. His teaching career began in 1949 when he accepted a teaching position at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, MO. In 1965 Franz became the head of the mathematics department of Illinois College where he remained until his retirement in 1987. He had been a long time MAA member. Donald Vanderjagt, 71 died on March 10, 2009. He had been a professor of mathematics at Grand Valley State University and an MAA member since 1961. For more on his life click here. Charalambos D. Aliprantis, 62, died in West Lafayette, Indiana on February 27, 2009 after a long battle with lung cancer. He earned his PhD at the California Institute of Technology. He spent 22 years at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis, and the last 11 years at Purdue University in West Lafayette, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics. For more on Professor Aliprantis click here. Aliprantis had been an MAA member since 2006. John Wrench, 97 died on February 27, 2009 in Frederick, MD. Wrench was a pioneer of high-precision computation using electronic computers. He holds a place in the record books for his 1961 computation (with Daniel Shanks) of 100,000 digits of pi. For more on Dr. Wrench click here.He had been a member of MAA since 1937. Alfred Yonda, 89 died on February 12, 2009 in Millbury, MA after a long illness. He had been a member of the MAA since 1953.Dianne Haber, 66, passed away on March 19, 2009. MAA member since 1974. Read more about her life here.
John R. Knudsen, 92, died on February 6, 2009. He received his PhD from New York University and had been an MAA member since 1961.
William R. Transue, 94 died on February 3, 2009. He received his PhD from Lehigh University in 1942. He spent some academic time overseas, spent a year at the Advanced Institute of Study working as an assistant to Marston Morse, and also taught at Kenyon before moving to Binghamton University in 1966 where he stayed until he retired in 1983. He had been an MAA member since 1949. For more on his life click here. Frederick Carpenter, 95 died on February 2, 2009.He had been a professor of mathematics at Colorado School of Mines and Colorado State University. Carpenter had been an MAA member since 1944. William Moser, 81, died on January 28, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec. William Moser received his B.Sc. (Manitoba, 1949), M.A. (Minnesota, 1951), and Ph.D. (Toronto, 1957). He was at the University of Saskatchewan 1955-1959, The University of Manitoba 1959-1964, and went on to become a professor at McGill University until his retirement in 1997 when he became Professor Emeritus. Moser was president of the CMS (1975-1977) and was awarded The Distinguished Service Award in 2003 (http://www.math.ca/Prizes/citations/ds2003.pdf). Please see a tribute to him at The Canadian Mathematical Society Web site: http://www.cms.math.ca/bulletins/2009/william-moser. Moser had been an MAA member since 1957. Donald Rutledge LaTorre, 70, died on January 12, 2009 in Pendleton, South Carolina. LaTorre received his undergraduate degree from Wofford College and his Master's and PhD from the University of Tennessee. He began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee before moving on to Clemson University. LaTorre spent 28 years at Clemson before retiring in 1995. For more on his life see http://www.math.clemson.edu/history/dlatorre.html. LaTorre had been an MAA member for 25 years.Elvy Fredrickson, 87, died on December 11, 2008. Professor emerita of mathematics, she became an MAA member in 1955. Read more about her life here.
France Sullivan died on December 14, 2008. MAA member since 1980. Read more about her life here.
John Wells Brace, 82, passed away on December 26, 2008. An MAA member since 1952. Read more about his life here.
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