William Massey

I will always remember the patience and humbleness of Professor Massey in the course I took from him as an undergraduate -- his style was quite unlike the other professors I had both as an undergraduate and as a Ph.D. student. I went to his office hours once as a senior -- he was in Dunham - and when I got to his office, there he was, the man who had written the book for many of us on topology, at a battered old metal desk in a room I recall as badly in need of better lighting. This did not...

Last Saturday when I was introducing my daughter to New Haven for she will be taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale in the Fall, I noticed on the Mathematics Department website the passing of Professor Massey after a long life well lived. He played a critical role in my professional development for which I will always be grateful.

When I arrived at Yale from Canada as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, my research interests in mathematics were still developing but were focusing on its...

RIP Prof. Massey
Prof. S. Chakraborty
Dibrugarh University, India

Sweet Joan, so sorry for you to add this to your already full plate. Your dad looks like a really sweet man. He must be an outstanding man to have raised a daughter like you. You will be in our prayers.

I'm so sorry for your great loss. Please accept my condolences.