[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34333249"]Yogi Berra[/URL]

[QUOTE=xilman;411092][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34333249"]Yogi Berra[/URL][/QUOTE]

One of my favourite quotes from YB:

“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”

[QUOTE=robert44444uk;411097]One of my favourite quotes from YB:

“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”[/QUOTE]

My Mom hates funerals....her own version is:
"Why should I go their funeral? They're not coming to mine."

[QUOTE=xilman;411092][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34333249"]Yogi Berra[/URL][/QUOTE]

Ha, the Papal-greeting story is classic. Nice collection of quotes, though they left off one of my favorites, "Predictions are hard - especially about the future." Truly a 'they broke the mold' kind of guy.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;411144]Ha, the Papal-greeting story is classic. Nice collection of quotes, though they left off one of my favorites, "Predictions are hard - especially about the future." Truly a 'they broke the mold' kind of guy.[/QUOTE]Now imagine trying to hit a ball with that chump chattering behind the plate. :tantrum:

Fwd from David Broadhurst re. Hans Riesel
 

[QUOTE=cuBerBruce;397969]Apparently the discoverer of M18 passed away nearly three months ago, but I've found no mention of it in this thread.

[url=http://www.familjesidan.se/sites/default/files/images/pic/pdf/1135723.pdf]Hans Riesel[/url]

He is also the person that the term [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesel_number]Riesel numbers[/url] comes from.[/QUOTE]

Got this nice e-mail from David Broadhurst today, who - as he has no M-forum account - welcomed me to post it here:
[quote]I saw in a Mersenne forum that you had remarked on the lack
of tributes to Hans Riesel.

I found this in Swedish:

[url]http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/hans-riesel-1[/url]

With help from Google translate, I have tried to approximate
it in English, as follows, with obscure parts in parentheses.

Associate Professor Hans Riesel, Professor of Numerical
Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
has died age 85. His next-of-kin are his partner Gunnel
Gahne and three adult children from previous marriages.

Hans was born in Stockholm in 1929. His parents had shortly
before moved there from Germany, but he himself was a true
Stockholmer. He became a student at Norra Latin in 1948 and
then began to study mathematics at the then University of
Stockholm, where he became a Master of Arts in 1951 and a
licentiate in 1955. His obvious talent meant that he was
hired early as an assistant teacher of mathematics and he
also had his own consultancy business under the company name
Autokod.

During the 1950s he worked at the Mathematics Machine Board
with BESK (Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator) a Swedish
first-generation computer. With the help of this he found in
1957 a prime number with 969 digits that held the world
record until 1961. In the years 1960-63, he was director of
the department of mathematics at the Mathematics Machine
Board and then followed with that role in the state
[treasury?]. At the same time he taught mathematics and
numerical analysis at Stockholm University.

Following his doctorate in 1969, he became one of the first
university lecturers at NADA, the Department of Numerical
Analysis and Computer Science at KTH, and at Stockholm
University, at which he was [prefect?] in the 70s. In
addition to number theory, he made valuable contributions to
the formatting language TeX, which is now used for all
printed mathematical text, and to computer programs. As late
as the spring of 2014, he held his seminar on analytical
methods of series summation.

It was a pleasure to have contact with Hans about tricky
problems in subjects including number theory, algebra and
the calculus of variations, where his broad and deep
mathematical training could either give the result directly
or contribute to the solution, with his good ideas. As a
highly valued colleague, both in the [service room?] and the
[certificates?] he always provided sharp observations on the
day's events.

With Hans Riesel's death we see the disappearance of a
prominent representative of the generation of researchers
who laid the foundation of Sweden as an IT nation. The void
left by him cannot be filled, but his work should inspire
younger workers as an example of the joy and the power of
combining abstract theory with practical work in the
classroom and the [garage?].

Ingrid Melinder
Jesper Oppelstrup
Axel Ruhe
Yngve Sundblad[/quote]
David also asks for better translation from the Swedish, if any of Swedish readers care to provide one.

Fwd from David Broadhurst: Crandall Memorial Puzzle
 

A few hours after sending the above, DB followed up with a broadcast e-mail to a dozen or so friends & colleagues of Richard Crandall:
[quote]In honour of the memory of Richard Crandall (1947-2012), I
have devised a puzzle on prime numbers obtained from moments
of Bessel functions:

[url]http://physics.open.ac.uk/~dbroadhu/recmem.pdf[/url]

I commend this puzzle to Richard's many colleagues, noting
that "hand-to-hand combat with thousand-digit integrals" may
be insufficient to solve it, without using brain as well as
brawn. I have prepared a solution, together with a heuristic
analysis that I think Richard would have liked. This will be
released at the end of the year. Until then, happy puzzling.[/quote]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;411984]Got this nice e-mail from David Broadhurst today, who - as he has no M-forum account - welcomed me to post it here:

David also asks for better translation from the Swedish, if any of Swedish readers care to provide one.[/QUOTE]

I've only got a few hundred hours studying Swedish (my next class is tomorrow night), so I can't claim any of this is correct, but I've cleaned it up a bit more:

[quote]
Associate Professor Hans Riesel, Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has died age 85. His next-of-kin are his partner Gunnel Gahne and three adult children from previous marriages.

Hans was born in Stockholm in 1929. His parents had shortly before moved there from Germany, but he himself was a true Stockholmer. He became a student at Norra Latin in 1948 and then began to study mathematics at the then University of Stockholm, where he earn his master's degree in 1951 and a licentiate in 1955. His obvious talent meant that he was hired early as an assistant teacher of mathematics and he also had his own consultancy business under the company name Autokod.

During the 1950s he worked at the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery with BESK (Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator) a Swedish first-generation computer. With the help of BESK he found in 1957 a prime number with 969 digits that held the world record until 1961. In the years 1960-63, he was head of the mathematics department at the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery and kept that role when the board was subsumed by the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development. At the same time he taught mathematics and numerical analysis at the University of Stockholm.

Following his doctorate in 1969, he became one of the first university lecturers at NADA, the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science at KTH, and at Stockholm University, where he served as department head in the 70s. In addition to number theory, he made valuable contributions to the formula typesetting system TeX, which is now used for all printed mathematical text, and to mathematical computation. As late as the spring of 2014, he held his seminar on analytical methods of series summation.

It was a pleasure to have contact with Hans for tricky problems in subjects including number theory, algebra and the calculus of variations, where his broad and deep mathematical training could either give the result directly or contribute to the solution with good ideas. As a highly valued colleague, both in the work room and on break, he always provided sharp observations on the day's objectives.

With Hans Riesel's death we see the disappearance of a prominent representative of the generation of researchers who laid the foundation of Sweden as an IT nation. The void left by him cannot be filled, but his work will inspire younger workers as an example of the joy and the power of combining abstract theory with practical work in the classroom and the workplace.

Ingrid Melinder
Jesper Oppelstrup
Axel Ruhe
Yngve Sundblad
[/quote]

It would be best if a native speaker took a look, too.

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34687896"]Big Al Molinaro[/URL]

George Barris, man who designed original Batmobile, dies
 

He also [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-barris-batmobile-idUSKCN0SV2AE20151106"]designed specialty cars[/URL] for other shows. Besides the shows listed in the text, the video mentions The Beverly Hillbillies, "among others".

Wilfrid Keller sent me an e-mail on this today. [URL="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1201263"]Ray Ballinger[/URL] linked to from [URL="http://radiopaedia.org/blog?page=4"]here[/URL] passed in April 20, 2014 I never met him, but as he "turned the reins" over to me for various parts of the prothsearch website, we did work together. I will miss him.