Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry. He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.
He was president of the Royal Society (1990–1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990–1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995–2005), and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.
Yves Meyer
Yves F. Meyer (; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is known for proposing the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.
He was teacher at the Prytanée national militaire (1960–1963), a teaching assistant at the Université de Strasbourg (1963–1966), a Professor at Université Paris-Sud (1966–1980), a Professor at École Polytechnique (1980–1986), a Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (1985–1995), a Senior Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (1995–1999), an Invited Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (2000), a Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1999–2003), and has been a Professor Emeritus at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2004.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Singer was known for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962.
Singer died on February 11, 2021 at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts at the age of 96.
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson (born 18 March 1928) is a Swedish mathematician. He is known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis and for his proof of Lusin's conjecture. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1992, the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002, the Sylvester Medal in 2003, and the Abel Prize in 2006.
He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Zendaya
In 2013, Zendaya was a contestant on the sixteenth season of the competition series "Dancing with the Stars". From 2015 to 2018, she produced and acted as K.C. Cooper in the sitcom "K.C. Undercover". In 2019, she started playing the main role in the HBO drama series "Euphoria". Her performance as a teenage drug addict made her the youngest winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Her movie roles are supporting parts in the musical drama "The Greatest Showman" (2017) and the superhero movie "" (2017) and its sequel, "" (2019).
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian-American mathematician. He is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.
Varadhan's awards and honours include the National Medal of Science (2010) from President Barack Obama, "the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers and inventors". In 2007, he was awarded the Abel Prize.
John G. Thompson
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932) is an American mathematician. He works at the University of Florida. He is known for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992 and the 2008 Abel Prize.
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits (; born 12 August 1930 in Uccle) is a Belgium-born French mathematician. He worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.
In 2008 he was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, “for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.”
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhael Gromov, Michael Gromov or Mischa Gromov; ; born 23 December 1943), is a French-Russian mathematician. He is known for work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a member of IHÉS in France and a Professor of Mathematics at New York University.
Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
John Tate
John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.
Tate was described as "one of the seminal mathematicians for the past half-century" by William Beckner, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas.
Tate died at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts on October 16, 2019 at the age of 94.
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi (born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American mathematician. He worked in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986.
He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Szemerédi has won numerous awards and honors for his contribution to mathematics and computer science. A few of them are listed here:
White Army
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Sir Des Champs
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After winning only one of his five races in his native country, Sir Des Champs was transferred to Ireland and won seven races in succession including the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle, Greenmount Park Novice Chase, Killiney Novice Chase, Jewson Novices' Chase and Growise Champion Novice Chase. The 2012/2013 saw the emergence of a rivalry between Sir Des Champs and another Irish-trained chaser Flemenstar.
After beating his rival in the Hennessy Gold Cup, Sir Des Champs was regarded as a leading contender for the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup in which he finished second to Bobs Worth.
He suffered a fatal injury when competing in Point-to-point racing on 18 May 2018 at the age of 11.
Ernst Sieber
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From 1991 to 1995 he represented the citizens of the Canton of Zürich as member of the Evangelische Volkspartei (EVP) political party in the "Nationalrat", the lower Swiss parliament's house.
Sieber died on 19 May 2018 at the age of 91 in Hospital Triemli in Zurich.
Koo Bon-moo
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Koo died of brain cancer on 20 May 2018 in Seoul at the age of 73.
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