Ben Carse Nolting

Wow, I just found this out today. He was my STAT 391 professor at Nevada State College in 2019. I looked his name up to make sure I was spelling it correctly in an e-mail. I am deeply saddened to learn of this news because I planned on continuing conversations with him when I started taking more classes involving mathematics. I will repeat here what I said in that e-mail:

"His teaching inspired me to learn more about statistics because it's so interesting and useful and he's the...

It is with greatest sympathy and sorrow that I write in learning of Ben´s passing. Ben was my Differential Equations teacher at UNL when I was an undergraduate, and played a vital role as my mentor, supporting me throughout my career in preparing for graduate school and beyond. He was a remarkable human being; always with a kind, patient, humble and encouraging character, a genuine desire to help others with undivided attention, a dry sense of humor that brightened the room, and a talent of...

I never met Ben but he sounds like a lovely person. My brother, who was a high school friend of his father, Joe, sent me Ben's obituary. I just wanted to send my condolences to his family. Ben's life sounds so inspiring. He accomplished so much and he obviously was deeply loved. I wanted to reach out to his family to tell them how sorry I am for their loss.
Beth Stinebring

In 2018, my colleague and I had an issue with running some codes in Mathematica software, this made me seek help from the online community support for Mathematica - I saw one of the responses of Professor Nolting to a problem in 2014. I wrote an e-mail to him due to the kind way he responded.

An acquaintance ensued and I wrote to him to mentor me professionally. The kindness with which he attends to e-mails endeared me to him. We were planning to work together for a postdoc when...

Ben was a member of the editorial board of the PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research, a mathematics journal publishing papers with at least one undergraduate student author. He served as an editor and reviewer for two years, first from his position at Chico State, then as faculty at Nevada State College and finally as unaffiliated until late March of this year. At that time he had to resign after accepting a non-academic job and contemplating a move across the country in the middle of the...

I never met Ben except when he was a baby but I knew his wonderful parents in Sitka, AK. It does not surprise me that Ben went on to be the special person he obviously was. Ben was an outdoor baby the day he was conceived as Annie and Joe were living in a tent in that time period and always were biking and hiking and soaking up life. Bless

I met Ben at a MAA (Mathematical Association of America) meeting in Anchorage in June 2004. "I was astonished at the high level of mathematics being presented by Ben. I was equally astonished at the professional presentation and, most of all, his answers to questions afterward. He clearly knew what he was talking about and was able to explain it clearly. In my 35 years of teaching here at the University of Oregon I have seen a few outstanding undergraduates, but none of them made the...

I was so sorry to hear about Ben's passing. He was an exceptional graduate student and our program definitely benefited from having him in it. He will be missed by all who knew him.

Annie and Joe,

So very sorry to hear about Ben. Such an amazing person, not only brilliant and accomplished but kind and thoughtful as well. My memories of him are happy ones, beginning when he and my son Adam met at age 3 when they were attending preschool at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Wasilla. They also spent many fun filled hours together playing "Star Trek" and other imaginative games. Through his gifts and kindness, Ben left a legacy to be proud of. Take care, you all are...