Mizan Rahman, co-author of http://books.google.com/books/about/Basic_Hypergeometric_Series.html?id=Ptuy... No matter how hard I twisted my q-hypergeometric matrices, he was impossible to stump, conjuring a derivation from his (and George's) justly famous book. --Bill Gosper ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Askey <askey@math.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:25 AM Subject: *Mizan Rahman* To: billgosper@gmail.com Dear Bill, Here is some sad news. Dick ----- Forwarded message from Mourad Ismail <mourad.eh.ismail@gmail.com> ----- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:50:48 -0500 From: Mourad Ismail <mourad.eh.ismail@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ Fwd: Prof. Rahman] To: Martin Muldoon <muldoon@yorku.ca> Cc: Tom Koornwinder <T.H.Koornwinder@uva.nl>, Erik Koelink < e.koelink@math.ru.nl>, Richard Askey <askey@math.wisc.edu>, Dennis Stanton < stanton@math.umn.edu>, Denise Marks <kramerfan2fla@hotmail.com>, GEORGE E ANDREWS <gea1@psu.edu>, George G <george@math.northwestern.edu>, Christian Berg <BERG@math.ku.dk>, berndt@math.uiuc.edu Dear Martin, Thanks for confirming that Mizan Rahman passed away. I found an interesting about Mizan which may be used to write about him in the Newsletter of the SIAM activity group. It is on: http://biggani.org/?p=1019 Best regards Mourad On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Martin Muldoon <muldoon@yorku.ca> wrote: Mourad, Tom:

I did not find anything in regular searches, but finally went to Facebook and, sadly, confirmed the passing of Mizan.

www.facebook.com/MizanRahmanCanada

If you click in the black area at the top you can read the attached. He gave a speech in Toronto as recently as December 21, 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy3lHphJG3s

(mostly in Bengali with a few sentences in English)

Martin

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