Obituary
Don Pierce had a habit of continuing email threads with his collaborators years after a previous message without missing a beat in the conversation. Such instant-restart conversations reflected a profound intellectual concentration, a dogged pursuit of deeper understanding, and the special importance he placed on his collaborative relationships. These conversations…
Donald M. (Mike) Titterington sadly passed away last April after suffering for many years from Parkinson’s disease; he had spent his entire academic career at the University of Glasgow until his retirement in 2011. Mike was born in Marple, England, but moved at an early age to Stirling, Scotland and…
Tze Leung Lai, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, passed away on May 21, 2023, at the age of 77. He made far-reaching contributions to sequential statistical analysis and a wide range of applications in the biomedical sciences, engineering and finance. Tze received many honors for…
Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy, known to generations of mathematicians and probabilists simply as KRP, passed away on June 14 in New Delhi; he was 86. Professor Parthasarathy made numerous extremely deep contributions over a stunningly wide spectrum of mathematics: probability, quantum probability, graph theory, linear algebra, statistics and other mathematical domains.…
Krishna B. Athreya, who was an IMS Fellow, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at Iowa State University, died at his home in Ames, Iowa, on March 24, 2023. Rick Durrett reflects on Professor Athreya’s mathematical legacy.
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