Henryk Minc

Henyk was talented in so many fields and full of goodwill towards everyone. Besides mathmatics, his collection of ancient Jewish coins was one of the finest in the country.
Those who where at his retirement dinner won't soon forget his talent on the bag pipes.

My sincere condolences to Dr. Minc's family, amid my warm memories of him. I, too, knew Henryk as a mathematician when I was a Ph.D. student at UCSB in the mid-to-later 1970s. The book he co-authored with my thesis advisor and his good friend, Prof. Marvin Marcus, "A Survey of Matrix Theory and Matrix Inequalities," is one of the most dog-eared in my collection. Henryk was a most jovial and cheerful fellow to have around -- his photo is just as I remember him! He and Marvin, and Bob Thompson...

Ray, My condolences to you and your family.

I only knew Professor Minc through his formidable mathematics work. My deepest sympathies to his family. May his memory be for a blessing. -JM Saniuk, UCSB '87

I met Prof. Minc only once (at the Burns Federation conference in 2001), but had followed for a number of years his enviable record as a collector of Scottish authors, especially Burns, and his writing about what he collected. He and and my senior colleague Ross Roy here in South Carolina (another WWII vet who died earlier this year) often were competing to get special items for their collections. Burnsians will miss Prof. Minc's scholarly enthusiasm.

I knew Henryk as a mathematician. He was a foremost expert in the theory of nonnegative matrices and an inspiring teacher and colleague. I recall a wonderful course in nonnegative matrices I took from Henryk with Steve Johnson, some pithy comments at my oral PhD defense, and the care he gave to reading my PhD thesis. Aside from mathematics, I was continually amazed at the breadth and depth of his experiences and expertises. He was a man of many nationalities, languages, interests and...

I am saddened by the death of Henryk, with whom I was colleague and close friend since 1966, when I joined the mathematic faculty at UCSB. We shared several interests and spent happy hours in past years.
David Sprecher

Every time that I saw him at the UCSB pool, he cheered me up. I will surely miss him.