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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 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…
Peter Whittle, who died on 10 August 2021 at 94 years of age, will be remembered as a pioneer across the fields of probability, statistics and optimization. He wrote a number of important papers, but it is in his books that one can best appreciate the broad sweep of his…