[FOM] Hartley Rogers Jr. 1926-2015 (fwd)

Sun Jul 19 18:39:36 EDT 2015

The sad message below was just sent out to the MIT Mathematics Department.

Tim

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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:42:22 -0400
From: TOMASZ MROWKA <head at math.mit.edu>
To: allmath at math.mit.edu
Subject: Hartley Rogers Jr. 1926-2015

It is my unhappy duty to inform you all of the passing of Hartley Rogers 
Jr. Hartley died Friday morning after a long illness.  He was comfortable 
and at peace, and we, his family, were with him.

Hartley was an important figure in the department and at MIT.  He was a 
student of Alonzo Church working in Recursion Theory.  His book Theory of 
recursive functions and effective computability” is a classic.  Please 
take a look at his biography at the site below to get a little feeling of 
the large impact he has had here at MIT.

http://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=225

I will pass on information regard memorials and was you can honor 
Hartley'’s memory if you wish at a later time.

Tom

Tomasz S. Mrowka
Head of the Department
Singer Professor of Mathematics MIT