Dear All,
I am forwarding the following sad news to you about Neal Carothers.
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Dear All,
It is with a heavy heart I am sharing with you the sad news that Dr. Neal Carothers passed away on January 29, 2018.
There are not enough words to properly describe the impact Neal made on this department and the math community during his tenure at BGSU. It is touching to see all of the kind words and memories shared about Neal from the math community. Dr. Steven Seubert who was a close friend and colleague of Neal did a good job portraying Neal’s impactful professional career. I am honored to have Steve’s permission to share his message about Neal with you:
“It is with the greatest sadness that I have learned of the passing of Neal Carothers. I am indebted to Neal not only on a professional, but a personal level as well. He was a gifted mathematician, exceptional educator, and expositor of the highest degree. I not only learned a lot of mathematics from him
(and from his book 'Real Analysis"), but learned a lot about how to share it with others; his love of and passion for mathematics was evident and infectious and he had a profound effect on my career. No doubt this was also true for the generations of students he trained at BGSU.
He amassed the usual research credentials publishing more than a dozen refereed research articles in some of the most prestigious journals in his field and he supervised three students who earned their PhD under his tutelage. He was a popular speaker delivering over a dozen invited addresses and wrote two books.
On the administrative end, Neal served the department in all of the most important capacities, as a member of its Advisory, Personnel, and Promotion and Tenure Committees, and from 1999-2007, as its Chair and with impressive results. A hallmark of his leadership was to have nurtured strong graduate programs and fostered strong relationships with departments and programs all across campus by his presence at the college and university levels.
I am certain that one of Neal's most cherished accomplishments would be his reputed text 'Real analysis’. I am including below a copy of one review for this exceptional text which compares it to several other well-known books by some of the most revered of all mathematicians of our era. When the review states that Neal's book 'will sit happily alongside classics such as Apostol's Mathematical analysis, Royden's Real analysis, Rudin's Real and complex analysis and Hewitt and Stromberg's Real and abstract analysis,' it is acknowledging Neal as a supreme expositor and master of his trade.'
You will be sorely missed, my friend.”
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At this time, we do not have specific arrangements for the funeral, but you might want to check any update with Dunn Funeral Home at http://www.dunnfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Neal-L-Carothers?obId=2936577#/cel
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RIP, Dear Neal.
Hanfeng
Hanfeng Chen
Professor and Chair