Michael Case (1981-2010)
Wednesday May 12th 2010
Case died April 3 at the age of 28. He received his undergraduate degree from North Georgia College in 2005 and his master's degree from Clemson University in 2007. His PhD from Clemson was awarded posthumously in May.
Raj K. Kaul (1923-2010)
Wednesday May 12th 2010
Kaul, who taught electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo from 1968 until his death, died April 9 about a month before his 87th birthday. Born in Agra, India, Kaul received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 and was an AMS member since 1985.
Mary Boas (1917-2010)
Thursday May 6th 2010
Boas died February 17, less than a month before her 93rd birthday. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Washington and her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in 1948). She taught physics at DePaul University until her retirement in 1987. Boas was the author of the popular text Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences and over 130 reviews for Mathematical Reviews. Her late husband Ralph was one of the early executive editors of MR and her son Harold is a professor at Texas A&M and a former editor of Notices of the AMS. Read more in an obituary in The Seattle Times.
Joseph Verret (1945-2010)
Monday May 3rd 2010
Verret died March 30 at the age of 64. He received his PhD from Tulane University in 1975 and was an AMS member since 1990.
Joong Fang (1923-2010)
Friday April 30th 2010
Fang died on February 16 at the age of 86. He was a native of North Korea who moved to the U.S. in 1948. Fang wrote more than 30 books and 300 papers on mathematics and philosophy. In addition, he was the founding editor of the journal Philosophia Mathematica. He taught in the philosophy department at Old Dominion University from 1974 until his retirement in 1990. Fang was a member of the AMS since 1962. Read more at the Old Dominion website.
Richard Lashof (1922-2010)
Friday April 30th 2010
Lashof, a leader in geometric and differential topology, died February 4 at the age of 87. After receiving his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering he served in the U.S. Navy, from 1943-1946. In 1954 he received his PhD from Columbia University and joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, serving as chair from 1967 to 1970. Lashof was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1960-61. In 1963 he received the University of Chicago's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Lashof was an AMS member since 1950. Read more about him in a notice posted by the university.
George Heigho (1933-2010)
Friday April 23rd 2010
Heigho died March 19 at the age of 76. He taught at Suffolk University from 1959 to 1967, before becoming a technical writer for IBM. After about 30 years at IBM, he retired in 1975 as a senior information developer. Heigho was an AMS member since 1963. Read more about his life in the San Jose Mercury News.
Matthew Steven King (1987-2010)
Thursday April 22nd 2010
King, a first-year graduate student at the University of Virginia, died April 19 one month after his 23rd birthday. He had just left The Haven---a community space for the hungry, disadvantaged, and homeless---where he was a volunteer, when he was hit by a utility truck while he was riding his bicycle. Peter Abramenko, associate chair of the department, said, "It is a tragedy and a loss for our department---first of all on a personal level---but we anticipated that he would be one of our top students." King was a teaching assistant for honors calculus. Read more in the University of Virginia newspaper, The Cavalier Daily.
Fritz Grunewald (1949-2010)
Wednesday April 21st 2010
Grunewald died March 21, a week before his 61st birthday. Grunewald was a leading group theorist and chair for algebra and number theory in the Mathematics-Natural Sciences Department at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf (Germany). Before joining the department in Düsseldorf, he was a research professor for 11 years at the University of Bonn. A conference on the occasion of his 60th birthday, "Group Theory, Number Theory and Geometry" was held last year at Oxford University. Read more about Grunewald (in German) here.
Warren Loud (1921-2010)
Tuesday April 20th 2010
Loud died January 15 at the age of 88. He finished in the top five in the 1942 Putnam Exam and was one of the members of the third-place team from MIT team that year. In 1946 Loud received his PhD from MIT, under the direction of Norman Levinson. Loud taught at the University of Minnesota for 45 years, retiring in 1992. While at the university, he founded its math team, which participated in the Putnam competition, and served as associate chair of the department in the 1960s. In addition to his academic career, Loud sang and acted in Minneapolis' Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company for almost 30 years, most recently appearing in The Mikado in 2007. Read more about his life in "Warren Loud, a man of letters---and numbers" in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Loud was an AMS member since 1942.
