Obituary
Aristotle Arapostathis, ‘Ari’ to his friends, lost his battle with cancer of the liver on May 19th, 2021, not too long after he was diagnosed with it. Born in 1954 in Athens, Greece, he was the only son of Theodoros and Eleni Arapostathis. After his schooling in Athens College, he…
Harry Cohn was born on 27 July, 1940, in Bucharest, Romania, to Ionel and Perla Cohn (née Lachman). He died on 7 May, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia. Harry’s father Ionel was a mathematician, and also a music lover: Harry inherited from him his love for mathematics and music. His mother…
Theophilos (Theo) Cacoullos, who passed away in 2020, was an IMS Fellow and founder of the Greek Statistical Institute. His research work covered topics in multivariate analysis, characterizations of distributions, variance bounds for univariate and multivariate distributions and many others. His obituary is here.
Theo Cacoullos’s family members have…
Theophilos N. Cacoullos was born April 5, 1932, in the village of Pachna in Limassol district, Cyprus. After his secondary education in Limassol (valedictorian, 1950), he studied mathematics at the University of Athens and earned his diploma (BSc) in 1954. Then, Cacoullos returned to Cyprus and worked for two years…
Richard “Rich” J. Fox, a longtime member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Marketing Department faculty at the University of Georgia, died December 2, 2020, at this home in Athens, Georgia. He was 78.
Born in New York, Rich earned his undergraduate degree from the University of…