Obituary
On November 27, 2025, the distinguished mathematician and outstanding teacher Klaus Krickeberg passed away at the age of 96. His broad scientific interests concerned the fields of analysis, martingales, stochastic geometry and point processes, and moreover, epidemiology and public health. To him, mathematics was a reflection of reality, in which…
Having retired from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) in 2013, after spending his entire academic career there, Paul Deheuvels sadly passed away last January. Son of the French mathematician René Deheuvels, Paul was born in Istanbul, where his father was teaching at the French Lycée. He…
Professor Valentin Vladimirovich Petrov passed away on 31 May, 2025. He was born on 10 February, 1931, into the family of a physician in Kholomky in the Pskov region of Russia. In 1952 he finished his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the University of Leningrad (St.…
Arak M. Mathai, an eminent mathematician and statistician whose work markedly shaped modern multivariate analysis, special functions, and applied probability, passed away on December 20, 2025, after contending with a cancer that was as swift as it was unforeseen, bequeathing a legacy of enduring resonance and global influence.
Born in…
Dr. Richard Arnold “Rich” Johnson, age 88 of Madison, USA, died on February 2, 2026. He lived a rich life of service and countless contributions to the field and profession of statistics.
Rich was born on July 10, 1937, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He obtained three degrees from the University…