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In Memoriam: Lloyd Shapley
UCLA mourns the passing of Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley, 92 Shapley, widely considered a father of game theory, was a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics
In memoriam: Leo Sario, Professor Emeritus, 1916 – 2009
Professor Emeritus Leo Sario died of a heart attack at his Santa Monica home on August 15, 2009. He was 93. In Finland during World

In memoriam: Jonathan Rogawski Professor of Mathematics, 1955 – 2011
Professor Jonathan Rogawski passed away on September 27, 2011, after a long battle with cancer. Rogawski was a key figure in the dynamic and central

In Memoriam: John “Ernie” Esser
John “Ernie” Esser died Sunday, 8 March 2015, at a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, of complications from the flu and pneumonia, which he suffered on

In memoriam: Herbert B. Enderton Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, 1936 – 2010
Adjunct Professor Emeritus Herbert B. Enderton died at his home in Santa Monica on October 22, 2010, after battling leukemia for nearly a year. Enderton

In Memoriam: Heinz-Otto Kreiss
The department is sad to announce that Professor Emeritus Heinz-Otto Kreiss, passed away on Wednesday, December 16th. He died peacefully in his home without pain or

In Memoriam: Greg Hjorth, Professor of Mathematics, 1963 – 2011
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

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Mess
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
In Memoriam: David G. Cantor, Professor of Mathematics, 1935 – 2012
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