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Professor Greg Hjorth died of a heart attack in his birth city of Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 13. He was 47. Hjorth was recognized as a young chess whiz in his primary school years. He quickly advanced to tournament chess, becoming joint Commonwealth Champion in 1983 and earning his International Master title in 1984. He […]
Geoffrey Mess, a mathematics professor at UCLA, died on August 8th, 2014. Following the completion of a brilliant Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley on Torelli subgroups of mapping class groups, Geoffrey Mess joined the UCLA Mathematics Department as a Hedrick Assistant Professor, a visiting position reserved for top young PhDs from around the world. He […]
Professor Emeritus David G. Cantor passed away on November 19, 2012. After completing undergraduate work at the California Institute of Technology in 1956, he received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1960 under the combined direction of Basil Gordon and Ernst Straus. He held an instructorship at Princeton University (1960-62), followed by an Assistant Professor position […]
A.V. Balakrishnan, distinguished professor emeritus and research professor of electrical engineering, passed away Tuesday morning, March 17. Bal, as he was known to everyone, was a member of the UCLA faculty for more than 50 years. Bal grew up in Chennai, India. He earned his B.Sc. and an M.A. from the University of Madras. After moving to the […]
Associate Professor Emeritus Rodolfo (Rudy) Vittorio De Sapio passed away on January 24, 2017 due to complications arising from cancer of the bladder. Rudy joined the UCLA Department of Mathematics in 1966. Throughout the years, he grew a reputation for being one of the best teachers in the department. According to one of his students, Rudy was “animated, never […]
Basil Gordon was born on December 23, 1931, and died 80 years later on January 12, 2012. He grew up in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his master’s degree in mathematics in 1953. While still an undergraduate, he spent a year in Hamburg, studying with the great algebraists Emil Artin and […]
Professor Emeritus Barrett O’Neill died on June 16, 2011, at age 87. O’Neill joined the department in 1951, directly from MIT, where he had just received his PhD under the direction of Witold Hurewicz. O’Neill retired in 1991, but he continued his mathematical work, with a major book on relativity, The Geometry of Kerr Black […]