Peter Montgomery on February 18: [url]https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html[/url]

Very sad to hear about Peter M's passing - he was a valuable mentor to me back into my very earliest GIMPS-associated algorithmic forays over 20 years ago. We shared a hotel room at one of the biennial West Coast Number Theory Conferences at Alisomar down the coast in Pacific Grove (within eyeshot of the famous Pebble Beach golf course) once back in the late 90s. Also met many other NT luminaries at those.

I had sent him a new year's letter (care of his brother) at beginning of the year - I've no idea as to the state of his health in the past months, but I hope it got there in time to perhaps provide him with a tiny bit of cheer.

[URL="https://www.npr.org/2020/02/28/810433230/physicist-and-iconoclastic-thinker-freeman-dyson-dies-at-96"]Freeman Dyson[/URL].

[url=https://apnews.com/7e58cf76e73aba70736081a06e2715fa]Joe Coulombe[/url][quote]He prided himself on checking out every vintage of wine from California's Napa Valley, including Trader Joe's standby, Charles Shaw, affectionately known as Two-Buck Chuck because it sold for $1.99. (It still does in the California stores, although shipping costs have increased the price in other states.)
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After selling Trader Joe's to German grocery retailer Aldi in 1979, Coulombe remained as its CEO until 1988, when he left to launch a second career as what he called a "temp," coming in as interim CEO or consultant for several large companies in transition. He retired in 2013.[/quote]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;538539]Very sad to hear about Peter M's passing - he was a valuable mentor to me back into my very earliest GIMPS-associated algorithmic forays over 20 years ago. We shared a hotel room at one of the biennial West Coast Number Theory Conferences at Alisomar down the coast in Pacific Grove (within eyeshot of the famous Pebble Beach golf course) once back in the late 90s. Also met many other NT luminaries at those.

I had sent him a new year's letter (care of his brother) at beginning of the year - I've no idea as to the state of his health in the past months, but I hope it got there in time to perhaps provide him with a tiny bit of cheer.[/QUOTE]


Peter had a stroke 5 to 6 years ago. I know that he spent several months in the hospital,
but I know nothing else. As you suggest, was he recently ill?

I have asked both Terry Tao and Bruce Schneier to make an announcement on their
websites.

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;538642]Peter had a stroke 5 to 6 years ago. I know that he spent several months in the hospital,
but I know nothing else. As you suggest, was he recently ill?

I have asked both Terry Tao and Bruce Schneier to make an announcement on their websites.[/QUOTE]
Last update I heard was a couple years ago from one of his Dutch colleagues, to effect that he was doing as well as could be expected given the severity of his stroke - was living under his brother's roof in Thailand, getting daily therapy, and seemed happy. But it's typical for such patients to be in fragile health, and he wasn't young anymore, either. Like I said, I've no information on the precise state of his health recently, whether he had complications of any kind, etc.

In addition to announcements such as you requested from Tao and Schneier, I'm guessing some kind of organized [i]Festschrift[/i] will be in the works? I just e-mailed Paul Zimmerman about that, will report back once I hear something.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;538663]Last update I heard was a couple years ago from one of his Dutch colleagues, to effect that he was doing as well as could be expected given the severity of his stroke - was living under his brother's roof in Thailand, getting daily therapy, and seemed happy. But it's typical for such patients to be in fragile health, and he wasn't young anymore, either. Like I said, I've no information on the precise state of his health recently, whether he had complications of any kind, etc.

In addition to announcements such as you requested from Tao and Schneier, I'm guessing some kind of organized [i]Festschrift[/i] will be in the works? I just e-mailed Paul Zimmerman about that, will report back once I hear something.[/QUOTE]

This was my exchange with Bruce: I enclose my email to him and his reply......
Apparently he does not intend to mention it.

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Why are you so surprised? I have never mentioned anyone else's death before.

At 05:53 PM 2/29/2020, you wrote:

>I am quite surprised that your security website has made no mention of
>Peter Montgomery. Perhaps you did not know? Peter passed away on
>February 18. I am deeply saddened. He was a good friend.
>
>See:
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><https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html>[url]https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html[/url]
>
>
>Bob Silverman

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;538665]This was my exchange with Bruce: I enclose my email to him and his reply......
Apparently he does not intend to mention it.

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Why are you so surprised? I have never mentioned anyone else's death before.

At 05:53 PM 2/29/2020, you wrote:

>I am quite surprised that your security website has made no mention of
>Peter Montgomery. Perhaps you did not know? Peter passed away on
>February 18. I am deeply saddened. He was a good friend.
>
>See:
>
><https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html>[url]https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html[/url]
>
>
>Bob Silverman[/QUOTE]


I do anticipate that the AMS Notices will say something in a month or two.

Reply from Paul Z. re. possible [i]Festschrift[/i] in honor of Peter M.:
[i]
"I don't know about anything planned in memory of Peter. I guess the book
coordinated by Arjen and Joppe was in prevision of that sad event. I will
ask them if they plan to organize something."[/i]

Rosie the Riveter, Rosiland P. Walter, drove rivets into the body of fighter planes during WWII and was immortalized in a newspaper article and song. She captured the spirit of the home front and was an early example of a woman excelling in a previously male occupation. She was 95

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/rosalind-p-walter-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/rosalind-p-walter-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage[/URL]

I feel very sad reading all posts about Peter Montgomery, but happy in the same time that people here on this forum knew him personally and remember him in such good words.

Rest in peace !