GEORGE-MOSTOW-Obituary

GEORGE D. MOSTOW

Hamden, Connecticut

1923 - 2017

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George Daniel Mostow, 93, of 200 Leeder Hill Dr., Hamden, CT, died at his home on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prof. Mostow was a mathematician renowned for his contributions to Lie Theory including the Mostow Rigidity Theorem, culminating in being awarded the 2013 Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for his...

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My deepest condolences to Sidnie and the rest of Prof. Mostow's family. I had the privilege of taking a course from Prof. Mostow when I was a graduate student at Yale, 1973-77, and was able to help him with some computer calculations in 1977. Whenever I saw him, even many years later, he always remembered me and treated me very kindly. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him.