George E. Andrews
AMS Executive Director with the universal recogni- faculty of Pennsylvania State
Donald McClure said, tion that it’s terribly impor- University right after earning
George E. Andrews, the
“It has been a great plea- tant to nurture and develop his PhD and has remained
Evan Pugh Professor in the
sure working with George young mathematicians, and there for his entire career,
Department of Mathematics
Andrews this past year in concomitantly, there are though he has held visiting
at Pennsylvania State
his role as president-elect. funding problems that are positions at institutions all
University, was recently
Already, he has seeded some probably going to get worse, over the world, including
elected president of the
interesting ideas to strength- rather than better,” he said. the Massachusetts Institute
American Mathematical
en support for young math- “Something really serious of Technology, Australian
Society. He succeeds James
ematicians. I look forward has to be done, includ- National University, the
G. Glimm, distinguished
to helping George fulfill ing a careful husbanding University of Strasbourg, and
professor of applied mathe-
his vision and goals dur- of money in order to keep the University of Linz. He
matics and statistics at Stony
ing his term as president.” more young people com- has been a Fulbright Scholar
Brook University.
Echoing this sentiment, ing into the profession. The and Guggenheim Fellow. He
“I greatly look forward
AMS Secretary Robert funding issue and expanding was elected to the American
to my work as president of
Daverman of the University employment opportunities Academy of Arts and
the American Mathematical
of Tennessee noted, “Already, are most important.” Sciences in 1997 and to the
Society,” Andrews said. “I
George has shown his calm, Andrews earned his PhD U.S. National Academy of
shall support and promote
quiet, effective leadership.” in mathematics from the Sciences in 2003. He holds
mathematics to the best of
One issue Andrews intends University of Pennsylvania three honorary doctorates.
my ability. This is a difficult
to address as AMS presi- in 1964, with a thesis writ-
time for the nation and an
dent is the need to improve ten under the direction of
especially difficult time for
support for the research of Hans Rademacher, titled
Obituary
mathematicians early in their
young mathematicians. “I “On the Theorems of
careers. I hope to find ways
am trying to figure out ways Watson and Dragonette for
P. Jega natha n
to aid these people in their
that we in the AMS could Ramanujan’s Mock Theta
Prepared by Vijay Nair and
efforts to get established.”
approach funding agencies Functions.” He joined the
R. V. Ramamoorthi
P. Jeganathan passed away
on January 20, 2009.
He was diagnosed with
advanced pancreatic can-
cer in December and lost
the battle in less than two
months. He was 56 years old.
Jegan, as he was called
by many colleagues and
friends, was born February
15, 1952, in Kambam,
Tamil Nadu, India. He
earned his bachelor’s of sci-
ence from Coimbatore Arts
College and his master’s
from Annamalai University,
both in Tamil Nadu. He
earned his PhD from the
Indian Statistical Institute
(ISI) in Calcutta in 1981,
where he was a research
associate from 1981–1982.
Jegan was a visiting fel-
low at the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute
in Berkeley from 1982–1983
and joined the Department
of Statistics, University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, in
1983. He stayed at Michigan
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