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Obituary: George A. Miller

George Armitage Miller died on July 22, 2012, at the age of ninety-two. He led a rich life full of accomplishments in the three areas of activity that he had chosen as a young man: psychology, writing, and golf. Miller was not only a witness but a key player in the major paradigm shift of the 20th century that came to be known as the cognitive revolution. Incredible as it may seem today, his te...

Obituary - David Bennett

and admired but few are loved. Th e avalanche of tributes and accolades that have fl ooded in since the tragic and premature death of David Bennett demonstrates the intense warmth and aff ection in which he was held. David qualifi ed from the Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1963. He spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in the pulmonary physiology lab at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore but otherwise wo...

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Proof of George Andrews's and David Robbins's q-TSPP Conjecture

1 Proemium In the historical conference Combinatoire Énumerative that took place at the end of May 1985 in Montréal, Richard Stanley raised some intriguing problems about the enumeration of plane partitions (see below), which he later expanded into a fascinating article [11]. Most of these problems concerned the enumeration of “symmetry classes” of plane partitions that were discussed in more d...

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