Tribute to Oved Shisha
โ Scribed by Richard A. Zalik
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9045
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โฆ Synopsis
Dedication
Tribute to Oved Shisha
On March 31, 1995, Oved Shisha was hit by a vehicle. As a consequence, he suffered severe brain injuries of which he is not expected to recover. Thus, although his body languishes, I feel that it is appropriate to write this article. Not to mourn his passing, but to celebrate his life; for those who knew him well also know that he was endowed with great decency and extraordinary kindness.
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I first met Oved Shisha in 1982, at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, where he was spending a sabbatical year and I had a postdoctoral fellowship. Shisha was teaching a graduate course in approximation theory, and this was exceptionally lucky for me: my Ph.D. was on Pade approximation, and the narrow f