Philip J. Davis, an applied mathematician and very prolific writer, died on Tuesday.
I have a pet peeve in the above obituary: Don't write sentences like "He wrote countless books, articles, and book reviews imbued with his personal perspective." in the obituary of a mathematician, especially if he is an analyst (with much work in numerical analysis, in this case). Trust me: it's countable (and, actually, it's finite).
For most of us, we'll be more familiar with the many essays and (especially) book reviews that Davis wrote for SIAM News.
(Tip of the cap to the SIAM Twitter account.)
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