J. Paul Barringer (1903-1996)

Bruno Bettelheim ( 1903 – 1990 ) R Paul Marcus

BRUNO BETTELHEIM WAS born in Vienna to uppermiddle-class assimilated Jewish parents, Pauline and Anton Bettelheim, on 28 August 1903. Though born when the Hapsburgs still ruled the Austro-Hungarian empire, Bettelheim grew up during the age of Freud. By age fourteen he was already voraciously reading in psychoanalysis, an angle of vision that was to inform his later writings on survivorship and ...

Paul Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 )

Paul Erdős was a searcher, a searcher for mathematical truth. Paul’s place in the mathematical pantheon will be a matter of strong debate, for in that rarefied atmosphere he had a unique style. The late Ernst Straus said it best in a commemoration of Erdős’s seventieth birthday. In our century, in which mathematics is so strongly dominated by “theory constructors” he has remained the prince of ...

Paul Erdös (1913-1996)

On October 18, 1996, hundreds of people, including many mathematicians, gathered at Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest to pay their last respects to Paul Erdős. If there was one theme suggested by the farewell orations, it was that the world of mathematics had lost a legend, one of its great representatives. On October 21, 1996, in accordance with his last wishes, Paul Erdős’ ashes were buried in hi...

In Memoriam: Paul J. Lioy

Exposure science has lost one of its founders and intellectual champions. Paul J. Lioy passed away unexpectedly on 8 July 2015 at the age of 68. The world has been left a far better place thanks to Lioy’s vision and creativity, enormous scientific contributions, and the many people that he shaped and influenced through teaching, mentoring, and friendships. Lioy’s vision and creativity took on m...

Probability Notes Compiled by Paul J . Hurtado