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Walter Kurt Hayman: 1926–2020

Walter Kurt Hayman: 1926–2020 Computational Methods and Function Theory (2020) 20:181–183 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40315-020-00323-y David Drasin Published online: 1 June 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 After a long and distinguished career, a dominant force in complex analysis passed away on January 1, 2020, a few days short of his 94th birthday. Walter Hayman’s research contributions already established his reputation by age 30, but his famous Monday morning seminar at Imperial College and his decades of international contacts, initiatives and research advocacy were a stable presence for well over 60 years. Several aspects of his personal history have been documented for broader audiences [2,8]. Walter was born in Cologne to an academic family, and shared his middle name with his grandfather Kurt Hensel, today remembered for introducing p-adic numbers. Although his family considered itself Protestant, their Jewish ancestry and the ascen- dent Hitlerian racial laws made imperative his leaving for the UK in 1938, his parents were fortunate to later find refuge there also. Communicated by Doron Lubinsky. David Drasin drasin@purdue.edu Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067, USA 123 182 D. Drasin In his autobiography [8] Walter indicates that he was attracted to mathematics http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Computational Methods and Function Theory Springer Journals

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Computational Methods and Function Theory (2020) 20:181–183 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40315-020-00323-y David Drasin Published online: 1 June 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 After a long and distinguished career, a dominant force in complex analysis passed away on January 1, 2020, a few days short of his 94th birthday. Walter Hayman’s research contributions already established his reputation by age 30, but his famous Monday morning seminar at Imperial College and his decades of international contacts, initiatives and research advocacy were a stable presence for well over 60 years. Several aspects of his personal history have been documented for broader audiences [2,8]. Walter was born in Cologne to an academic family, and shared his middle name with his grandfather Kurt Hensel, today remembered for introducing p-adic numbers. Although his family considered itself Protestant, their Jewish ancestry and the ascen- dent Hitlerian racial laws made imperative his leaving for the UK in 1938, his parents were fortunate to later find refuge there also. Communicated by Doron Lubinsky. David Drasin drasin@purdue.edu Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067, USA 123 182 D. Drasin In his autobiography [8] Walter indicates that he was attracted to mathematics

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