Photo courtesy of Anderson Funeral Home Crematory - DeKalb
DeKalb, Illinois
Feb 17, 1927 – Oct 31, 2010
DeKALB – John Selfridge, mathematician, computer pioneer and philanthropist, 83, of DeKalb, Ill., died on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2010, just a week after his mentally-challenged daughter Margaret flew out to celebrate her birthday in his hospital room.John Selfridge, a mathematician's mathematician...
Read MoreA larger-than-life personality, an author of many fine papers. John will be sorely missed.
Gerry Myerson
November 17, 2010 | Macquarie University, NSW, A
I attended the 80th birthday of John Selfridge in Urbana. He is really great researcher and human being and fabulous number theorist. His Number Theory Foundation helped me visit USA for many times from Cairo, Egypt. I wished Egypt know this person. I will write about him for Egypt and Arab world. He is more than great mathematician.
Mostafa Ibrahim O6U University, Egypt http://www.o6u.edu.eg/
Dr. Mostafa Ibrahim
November 16, 2010 | O6U University
John was my very entertaining colleague at the University of Washington, and at various math meetings after he left U.W. He will be missed.
Tom Hungerford
November 16, 2010 | Chesterfield, MO
John was a great man, and one of the most colorful people I have ever known. I first met John at the West Coast Number Theory Conference in 1992. I was a new Phd struggling on the academic job market who was about to abandon all thoughts of a career in academia. John and Andrew Granville cheered me up (over some gins and tonic), and together they
changed my life.
John was a great man.
Ken Ono
November 15, 2010 | Atlanta, GA
I didn't know him, but I knew his work well.
Jud McCranie
November 13, 2010 | Brunswick, GA
With fond memories of our association at Northern Illinois University. Appreciated his being a mentor to me.
Chaian Gupta
November 11, 2010 | Reno, NV
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Drew Burton
November 11, 2010 | Ann Arbor, MI
