Borislav D. Bojanov: 18 November 1944-8 April 2009

Borislav Dechev Bojanov was born in Shemshevo, a little village just outside the beautiful central Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo, of which he was so fond. Borislav took his first degree at Sofia University. He then went to Wroclaw, Poland, where he did a Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Professor Stefan Paszkowski. He returned to the Department of Mathematics of Sofia University in 1968 to serve as an Instructor, and stayed there until his untimely death. In 1975 he obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Blagovest Sendov, and he was awarded his Dr. Sci. degree in 1981. Borislav Bojanov was elected a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1997. He also served in various administrative capacities, including that of Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics from June 2003 to September 2007. Borislav was an active and important academic researcher, as is amply evident from the enclosed “List of Publications”. He was an editor of this journal since 1994, and was also on the editorial board of six other journals. In 1995 he helped found the “East Journal on Approximations” and he was co-editor-in-chief thereof since its inception. But more than anything else, Borislav was a kind, optimistic, gentle, and wise person whom we had the privilege to call our friend. We hope that the following few pages of reminiscences, written by a few of his good friends and colleagues, and appearing in the order in which we received them, give something of the spirit of the man who had so much life in him.