In Memoriam

Rainer K. Sachs

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

Physics Dept., Remembering Rainer Sachs

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: (Through 1977:) Cosmology, gravitational waves, general relativity. (Since 1980:) Mathematical biology, radiation damage to DNA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Goldberg, J. N. and Sachs, R. K. (2009). Republication of: a theorem on Petrov types [refcno 0156679]. Gen...

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Jack H. Silver

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

Obituary from the newsletter of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematical logic, Theory of sets

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Silver, Jack H. (1980). Counting the...

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Isadore M. Singer

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geometry, Partial differential equations, Physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Mathai, V. and Melrose, R. B. and Singer, I. M. (2008). Equivariant and fractional index of projective elliptic operators. J. Differential Geom. 78 No.3, 465-473. [...

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Heinz O. Cordes

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam Biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Classical analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Cordes, Heinz Otto (2007). Precisely predictable Dirac observables. Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 154. Springer Dordrecht xx+268. [...

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Grigory I. Barenblatt

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applied mathematics, Solid mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Similarity methods asymptotics, Mechanics of deformable solids

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Barenblatt, Grigory Isaakovich and Bertsch, Michiel and Nitsch, Carlo (2006). Nonlocal damage...

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Elwyn R. Berlekamp

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Combinatorial game theory, Algebraic coding theory, Electrical engineering, Computer science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Berlekamp, Elwyn R. and Conway, John H. and Guy, Richard K. (2004)...

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Passed away Saturday, April 8, 2017 at his home in Berkeley in the loving care of his family. He was 84 years of age. A native of Detroit, Michigan, and long-time resident of Berkeley, he is survived by his wife of 27 years, Mary Jennings of Berkeley; son Benjamin Sarason of Chicago, Illinois; step-daughters Anne Marie Jennings of Dripping Springs, Texas, and Allison Jennings of Berkeley; step-sons Herbert Jennings of Berkeley, and Daniel Jennings of Houston, Texas; sisters Constance Grossman of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Judith...

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Stephen P.L. Diliberto

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ordinary differential equations, Celestial mechanics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Diliberto, Stephen P. (1972). A new technique for proving the existence of analytic functions. In Ordinary differential equations (Proc. Conf., Math. Res. Center, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, D. C., 1971) 71-81 Academic Press New York. [...