Joe Keller, one of the greatest applied mathematicians of our time, died today.
By the way, the sentence above doesn't need the word "applied" in it to be accurate, but I retained it to emphasize Keller's perspective on mathematics.
A couple of years ago, when I gave the applied math seminar at Stanford, I was really excited that Joe Keller was in the audience to see it.
(Tip of the cap to Improbable Research for sharing the public Facebook post above.)
Update: And I just remembered that I forgot to include an all-time great quote (which I have been using for many years) by Joe Keller: "Pure mathematics is a branch of applied mathematics."
Update (9/10/16): The Stanford news release has more details about Joe Keller.
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