Stephen Allen (1915-2007) 
| PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1963 Joined UMass in 1948 as an Instructor; later promoted to assistant and associate professor Retired 1981 |
Mary K. Bennett (1940-1997)
| PhD, UMass, 1966 (the first PhD granted by our department!) Research: lattice theory |
Melvyn Berger (1939-2005)
| PhD, Yale, 1964 Became Professor Emeritus in 2003 Research: nonlinear PDE |
| PhD, University of Florida, 1965 Research: stochastic estimation and control, Kalman filtering, navigation and guidance |
Haskell Cohen (1920-2012) 
| PhD, Tulane University, 1953 Research: topology; semigroups |
Helen Cullen (1919-2007)
| PhD, University of Michigan, 1950 Research: topology |
David J. Dickinson (1920-1997)
| PhD, University of Michigan, 1954 Research: special functions |
| PhD, Courant (NYU) 1972 Research: probability theory, large deviations |
John Fogarty (1934-2009) 
| PhD, Harvard, 1966 Joined UMass in 1972 Became Professor Emeritus in 2008 Research: algebraic geometry |
| PhD, Tulane University, 1958 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 1997 Research: algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics |
Michael Gauger (1945 - 2021) 
| PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1971 Joined UMass in 1972 Became Professor Emeritus in 2001 Research: lie algebras obituary |
David Hayes (1937-2011) 
| PhD, Duke University, 1963 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 2002 Research: number theory |
Samuel S. Holland, Jr. (1928-2018) 
| PhD, Harvard, 1961 Joined UMass in 1967 Became Professor Emeritus in 1997 Research: lattice theory |
James E. Humphreys (1939-2020) 
| PhD, Yale, 1966 Research: representation theory |
Henry Jacob ( -2005)
| PhD, Yale, 1951 Research: algebra |
Melvin Janowitz (1929-2015)
| PhD, University of Minnesota, 1950 Research: lattice theory |
Aroldo (Ronny) Kaplan (1942-2026) 
| Licenciado en Matematicas, Universidad de Cordoba (Argentina) 1964 Research Area: Hodge Theory, Differential Geometry, Lie Theory |
| PhD, Yale, 1960 Research: ring theory |
Hsu-Tung Ku (1933-2021)
| PhD, Tulane University, 1967 Research: geometry and topology |
Mei-Chin Ku (1937-2021)
| PhD, Tulane University, 1967 Research: geometry and topology |
Teng-sun Liu (1932-2009)
| PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1963 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 2002 Research: transformation groups |
Charles H. Randall (1928-1987) 
| PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1967 Joined UMass in 1967(?) Research: lattice theory, foundations of quantum mechanics |
Walter Rosenkrantz (1938-2017) 
| PhD, University of Illinois, 1963 Joined UMass in 1971 Became Professor Emeritus in 2004 Research: Markov processes, modeling of network traffic |
Berthold Schweizer (1929-2010) 
| PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1956 Joined UMass in 1965 Became Professor Emeritus in 1995 Research: probability obituary |
Morris Skibinsky (1925-2007)
| PhD, University of North Carolina, 1954 Research: statistics |
| PhD, Brown University, 1958 Joined UMass in 1954 Became Professor Emerita in 2006 Research: partial differential equations obituary |
Marshall Stone (1903-1989) 
| PhD, Harvard, 1926 Joined UMass as George D. Birkhoff Professor in 1968 Became Professor Emeritus in 1980 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1938 President, American Mathematical Society, 1943-44 President, International Mathematical Union, 1952-54 National Medal of Science, 1982 Research: functional analysis, Boolean algebra, topology, quantum mechanics obituary |
Wayman Strother (1923-2002)
| PhD, Tulane University, 1952 Research: topology |
In Memoriam
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics remembers our past faculty members who have died. We created this page not only to honor them, but also as an appreciation for the knowledge and expertise they had shared with countless UMass Amherst students through the years.