W.-Comfort-Obituary

W. Wistar Comfort

Middletown, Connecticut

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William Wistar "Wis" Comfort passed away 28 November in Middletown, CT at age 83 following a brief illness. Wis Comfort was known to many for his gallantry, dry wit and humility. He was a widely-published mathematician and scholar whose teaching career spanned 5 decades. A formidable runner and...

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This was a bad news that I heard. When I want to write a paper I need to some one help me.
I sent an email to Professor Comfort and had request to help me. He tried to help me and sent some comments on the paper to me that they be very useful. After that I understand that he could not to type email.
But he would like to help me or introduce another mathematician to can help me. However, I wrote that paper and dedicated it to Professor Comfort. I wanted to told him that we do not forgot...

My fondest memory of Wis: walking from the math lounge to his office, with two very tall cups full of coffee or tea, ever ready for more work ... end, although still in the early 80's, for what I would later come to know as "e-mail"!

And it was e-mail that kept us in touch over the years, especially after my return to Greece in 2008, with the last exchange having taken place in August 2016: we discussed spherical symmetries and the Olympics, and he chose not to mention Mary Connie's...


We last met with Wis and Mary Connie on June 24, 2015. Wis, Mary Connie and their family were having a cruise from Venice via the Adriatic, with numerous stops, coming to an end at Piraeus and Athens. With my wife Vasiliki we arranged for a supper for our two guests, in an open space restaurant in Zapeion gardens in central Athens. It was a wonderful warm and memorable evening, all four of us in great spirits, despite the very serious health problems that Mary Connie and Wis were facing....