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Information from the Polytechnic Brooklyn University: http://www.poly.edu/news/papoulis.cfm
University Professor Emeritus Athanasios Papoulis, a prominent author and passionate educator for four decades, died April 25 in Huntington, Long Island. He was 81.
Born in Greece in 1921, Papoulis received degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics at the National Technical University in Athens and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Polytechnic in 1952 and retired in 1991, yet returned a year later to teach until 1994.
Papoulis distinguished himself in the scientific community for his more than 150 scholarly papers and nine books, including the classic Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, first published in 1965 and considered the standard textbook in the field. Among his honors, he received IEEE's James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, Germany's prestigious Humbolt Research Award and three honorary degrees from European universities.
To the Polytechnic community, Papoulis was, for 41 years, a memorable figure on campus, known for his dramatic lectures and creativity in incorporating mathematical ideas into electrical engineering.
"Professor Papoulis was a human dynamo," recalls former student Charles M. Rader '60 '61, a senior staff member of MIT's Lincoln Lab. "He had this wonderful way of bringing mathematics to life, whether by relating a geometrical diagram to a real-life situation, or by outrageously claiming to know Greek mathematicians from the first millenium."
Longtime colleague Dr. Mischa Schwartz '49, the Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, remembers Papoulis as "a gifted applied mathematician. His research and books demonstrated his unique ability to carry out complex engineering analysis in a relatively simple, insightful way."
Another former colleague, 1992 Nobel Laureate Rudolph A. Marcus H'86, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, calls Papoulis a "lifelong friend. I enjoyed his careful and well constructed logic in our discussions over the years, a logic in which he came to the essence of any problem."
Although known for his scientific intellect, Papoulis also loved the arts, especially music and the theater. "My father often said that if he had another career it would be as an actor," says his daughter Irene. "He was proud when people said that his lectures were performances." Papoulis's twin loves of education and the arts influenced his five children: Irene, a professor at Trinity College; Helen, a kindergarten teacher in California; James, a composer in New York; Ann, a dancer in Slovenia; and Mary, a violinist in Montana. He is also survived by his sister, Eleftheria, and brother, Leftheri; and six grandchildren.
BOOKS
A. Papoulis and S.U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet , McGraw-Hill, 4th edition, 2002
A. Papoulis , Probability Random Variables & Stochastic Processes: Sanitary & Water Resources Engineering, McGraw-Hill Companies, December, 1989
A. Papoulis, S. Unnikrishna Pillai , Probability, Random Variables & Stochastic Processes, McGraw-Hill Education, December, 2001
A. Papoulis , Circuits & Systems, Holt-Saunders (Japan), July, 1981
A Papoulis , Fourier Integral & Its Applications, McGraw-Hill Education, January, 1962
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