Erik Olin Wright, American Marxist sociologist, Died at 71

Erik Olin Wright was born on February 9, 1947, in Berkeley, California and died on January 23, 2019.

He  was an American analytical Marxist sociologist, specializing in social stratification, and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism.

He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness.

Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.

He started making contributions to the intellectual community in the mid-1970s, along with a whole generation of young academics who were radicalized by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

Wright was elected President of the American Sociological Association, in 2012.

Erik Olin Wright passed away at 71 years old, due acute myeloid leukemia.

Nathan Glazer, American sociologist, Died at 95

Nathan Glazer was born on February 25, 1923, in New York City and died on January 19, 2019.
He was an American sociologist.

Glazer educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and for quite a few years at Harvard University. 

Glazer was a co-proofreader of the now-dead arrangement diary The Public Interest. 

Glazer was referred to for books, for example, Beyond the Melting Pot, which manage race and ethnicity, Glazer was incredulous of a portion of the Great Society projects of the mid-1960s.

 

Glazer was frequently viewed as neoconservative in his reasoning on local strategy, however remained a Democrat. 

Nathan Glazer depicted himself as "impassive" to the neoconservative mark with which he is most related and commented that it was a handle not based on his personal preference.

Nathan Glazer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 95 years old.

Sir Michael Atiyah, British mathematician, Died at 89

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was born on April 22, 1929, and died on January 11, 2019.

 

He was a British-Lebanese mathematician specializing in geometry.

He was raised in Sudan and Egypt but spent most of his learning life in the United Kingdom at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, and in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He served as the President of the Royal Society (1990–1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990 to 1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995–2005), and the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008). 

From 1997 until his death, Atiyah was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh.

His mathematical joint works included Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. 

Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted. 

Sir Michael Atiyah was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004. 

Sir Michael Atiyah passed away at 89 years old.

Ronald C. Read, British-born Canadian mathematician, Died at 94

Ronald Cedric Read was born on December 19, 1924, in Croydon, England and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a British-born Canadian mathematician.

He served as a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Read wrote many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers in graph-theoretical research. Most of his later work was done later in Waterloo. He earned his Ph.D. (1959) in graph theory from the University of London.

Read's hobby was the making of string figures and is the inventor of the Olympic Flag String Figure on YouTube.

Read was also an accomplished musician and played many instruments including violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, guitar, lute, and many early music instruments, some of which he also built.

Ronald C. Read passed away at 94 years old.

Blandine Verlet, French harpsichordist, Died at 76

Blandine Verlet was born on February 27, 1942, in Paris and died on December 30, 2018.

She was a French harpsichordist and a harpsichord teacher.

She was known internationally for her recordings of works by François Couperin.

She was broadly adulated for her chronicles of Bach's music, including the Goldberg Variations. 

Verlet is maybe best known for having played the music of her countryman François Couperin, showing outstanding affectability and imagination.

She recorded Couperin's entire works during the 80s, and in late 2011 she came back to re-record five 'ordres' on the period Henri Hemsch harpsichord.

 Blandine Verlet passed away at 76 years old.

María Teresa Uribe, Colombian sociologist, Died at 78

María Teresa Uribe de Hincapié was born on February 9, 1940, in Pereira, Risaralda and died on January 1, 2019.

She was a Colombian sociologist, specializing in research into conflict and violence.

She examined human science at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia and later finished a graduate degree in urban arranging at the National University of Colombia.

Amid 1973, after her graduation, she accepting a situation as an instructor at the University of Antioquia.

Amid that time, she met Carlos Gaviria Diaz; he acquainted her with the recently developing field of political theory, which started to impact her sociological work.

From 1991, she chipped away at her exploration extends in the college's Institute of Political Studies.

She resigned from the college in 2005; in 2007 she was welcome to take an interest in the nation's first Historical Memory venture, anyway she was just ready to be required for a half year because of weakness.

She was welcome to add to various national and neighborhood political discussions on her vocation, for example, roundtable arrangements with the nineteenth of April guerilla development, and chats with Medellín state army, went for de-activating the paramilitary.

Guillermo Hincapié Orozco was her husband, was a former mayor of Medellín.

Her husband pre-deceased her by six days.

María Teresa Uribe passed away at 78 years old.

Geoffrey Langlands, British army officer and educator, Died at 101

Geoffrey Douglas Langlands was born on October 21, 1917, in Hull, England and died on January 2, 2019.

He was a British Major, a teacher, and educator.

He resided in Pakistan since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947.

Geoffrey Langlands served in the British Indian Army and Pakistani Army as part of his service tenure.

His father was employed in an Anglo-American company and a mother who was a classical folk dance instructor.

Langlands'  father passed away October 27, 1918, due to the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions worldwide.

Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Langlands moved with the children to her parents' home in Bristol.

During 1930, Langlands' mother died from cancer after which Langlands and his siblings lived under the care of their grandfather.

The following year on 24 December, Langlands grandfather died leaving children with no other relatives.

Langlands' older brother received a scholarship to an orphan school in Bristol, and a family friend helped secure positions for the other children.

Geoffrey Langlands passed away at 101 years old.