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   • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
   • CommentTimeSep 8th 2020
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   Author: Tim_Porter
   Format: MarkdownItexIt would seem that Vaughan Jones has died. I think that this was overnight on the 6th to 7th. Berkeley have `deceased' on his page as an Emeritus professor. Does anyone else have more details? I have just checked on Wikipedia and they have changed their entry accordingly but with today's date, which I think is wrong. I had the news via the MPPM network and someone at Vanderbilt university.

   It would seem that Vaughan Jones has died. I think that this was overnight on the 6th to 7th. Berkeley have ‘deceased’ on his page as an Emeritus professor. Does anyone else have more details? I have just checked on Wikipedia and they have changed their entry accordingly but with today’s date, which I think is wrong. I had the news via the MPPM network and someone at Vanderbilt university.

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   • CommentAuthorGuest
   • CommentTimeSep 9th 2020
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   Format: TextDear all (members of the NZMS) Many of us were saddened and shocked to hear this morning of the unexpected death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones FRSNZ, on Sunday evening in the USA, aged only 67. He had suffered from an ear infection recently and was having severe difficulties in recovering from that. Vaughan is widely regarded as the best ever mathematician to come out of New Zealand, and certainly the most successful. Raised in Gisborne, Cambridge and Auckland, he studied to Masters level at the University of Auckland, before moving to Switzerland for his PhD, and then spent most of his academic career at UC Berkeley, until moving to Vanderbilt University in Nashville about ten years ago. Vaughan won the Fields Medal in 1990 for his work on von Neumann algebras, and an unexpected application of that work to the development of a highly effective knot invariant, now known as the Jones polynomial. In fact he was the first ever winner of the Fields Medal born and educated in the southern hemisphere. But for many of us, Vaughan was highly respected for his humanity, his sense of humour, his ability to interact with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and his regular visits to New Zealand, where he did a tremendous amount to support and promote New Zealand mathematics over the last 30 years, especially in his roles as president of the NZMRI (Inc.), co-director of the NZIMA, and a distinguished alumni professor at the University of Auckland. His death is a great loss for his family, his many friends and colleagues, and the international mathematical community. Marston Conder

   Dear all (members of the NZMS)
   
   Many of us were saddened and shocked to hear this morning of the
   unexpected death of Professor Sir Vaughan Jones FRSNZ, on Sunday
   evening in the USA, aged only 67. He had suffered from an ear
   infection recently and was having severe difficulties in recovering
   from that.
   
   Vaughan is widely regarded as the best ever mathematician to come out
   of New Zealand, and certainly the most successful.
   
   Raised in Gisborne, Cambridge and Auckland, he studied to Masters
   level at the University of Auckland, before moving to Switzerland for
   his PhD, and then spent most of his academic career at UC Berkeley,
   until moving to Vanderbilt University in Nashville about ten years
   ago.
   
   Vaughan won the Fields Medal in 1990 for his work on von Neumann
   algebras, and an unexpected application of that work to the
   development of a highly effective knot invariant, now known as the
   Jones polynomial. In fact he was the first ever winner of the Fields
   Medal born and educated in the southern hemisphere.
   
   But for many of us, Vaughan was highly respected for his humanity, his
   sense of humour, his ability to interact with people from a wide
   variety of backgrounds, and his regular visits to New Zealand, where
   he did a tremendous amount to support and promote New Zealand
   mathematics over the last 30 years, especially in his roles as
   president of the NZMRI (Inc.), co-director of the NZIMA, and a
   distinguished alumni professor at the
   University of Auckland.
   
   His death is a great loss for his family, his many friends and
   colleagues, and the international mathematical community.
   
   Marston Conder