Howard L. Hiller Ph.D.

It is 2024. If the family and loved one of Howie Hiller coma across this addition, my hope is thos will cheer you. I was very young amd an inexperienced traveler. I met Howie in Nebaj Guatemala in the thick of a secret, long, and brutal civil war. It was just before Christmas of 1979 and new years of 1980 in that beautiful mountain village. Several disparate travelers, Howard among us, were staying at a guesthouse hosted by three sisters through the holidays. The group of is from all over the...

The news of Howard's death is very saddening. We were junior colleagues in the Columbia math department; Howard was one of the people who made that such an exciting place. I send my condolences, delayed as they are, to his family.

I am saddened to learn of Howard's death. I knew him about the time he got his PhD from MIT, studying under Daniel Quillen, the founder of the field of algebraic K-theory. I have referred to Howard's paper on Adams operations on K-groups multiple times for the important results contained in it, as have other mathematicians. Howard was a fine mathematician and will be missed. My belated condolences to the family.

I met Howard when he had first moved to New Haven and was eager to uncover everything interesting, exciting and fun to do. He was incredibly quick to understand people, to get them to smile, to find out what he could learn, and how he could be a friend. As others have mentioned, he was so versatile---a teacher, a scholar, an artist. What I remember most though, is how much he expected of himself...I know it stimulated me to appreciate what I have, to take advantage of opportunities life...

I am in shock to read this, and send my sympathies to his family and all of his frieds on his passing.

I knew Howard quote well through High School in Canarsie, where we shared many classes and activities. Howard was the counter-culture iconoclast of the Class of 1970, way ahead of his time. Only someone as brilliant as Howard could have dressed as he did, wore his hair as long as he did (before it was fashionable), and spoken out about injustice and inequity as forecefully as he...

I just found out about Howard's death, and it was a shock. I attended Canarsie High School (and Cornell) with Howie, and we were in most of the same classes in high school. I remember his self-deprecating sense of humor (in our yearbook he was listed as Best Dressed Boy). Once, he and I were riding together on the subway, having an eyebrow war. I lost touch with him after college, but I always thought he would go on to do something brilliant. Apparently, he did.

I just learned of your loss, Barbara. I'm so sorry.

My heart goes out to you and your family.

Its been a long time since our days at Risley, but know that if you visit the San Francisco Bay area, I would like to give a hug in person.

Wishing you and your family all the best during this difficult time.

I would like to send my sympathy and best wishes to everybody who knew and loved Howard.I was friends with him when he came to study in Oxford.We discovered the city together.He was quite amazing,as he found time to study Shakespeare,attend the plays,and do his Mathematics.He went though a phase of baking apple crumble,every meal!
He adored all his family,with best wishes to you all at this very sad time.

Geoff, Howie's brother, tells the story of Howie attending a philosophy lecture (on Wittgenstein) at UCLA. May I add one thing to Geoff's account? In Howie's version (as I recall it), Howie goes up to the professor afterward and the two get into a heavy discussion, at the end of which the professor says, "I take it you're a graduate student." Howie's reply: "I'm a junior in high school." . . . A memory of Howie from his Cornell days: at Risley, the dorm where he lived and ate, a...