Obituary
Tom Liggett passed away May 12, 2020 in Los Angeles. Tom was the editor of the Annals of Probability from 1985–87, gave the Wald Lectures in 1996, and was elected to the National Academy in 2008. He is best known for his two books on interacting particle systems.
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Richard Mansfield Dudley, MIT professor emeritus of mathematics, died on January 19 at the age of 81. Born on July 28, 1938, in Cleveland, Ohio, Dick Dudley completed a BA from Harvard University, summa cum laude, in 1959. He wrote a doctoral dissertation at Princeton University under two advisors, Gilbert…
Shartchandra Shankar Shrikhande, IMS Fellow and well known combinatorial mathematician, passed away on April 21 at his residence in India. He was 102.
S.S. Shrikhande was born in Sagar, India, on October 19, 1917. Having won scholarships, he was able to complete his BSc Honours at the Government College of…
Occasionally, a mathematician passes on who is much more than the sum of his work, considerable as that might be. A person, perhaps, whom people felt the better for having known. A person who always had a smile, a glint in the eye, a beguiling charm, a ready happiness to…
David John Finney was born in Warrington, UK, on January 3, 1917. His mathematical abilities were recognized by the local school and his parents were advised to transfer him to Manchester Grammar School. From there he won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, to study mathematics, until a health scare…