I just received my alumni magazine and learned, to my sorrow, that one of my old teachers, Professor Joel Franklin, passed away. I can't say that I knew any of the faculty members particularly well, but Professor Franklin always struck me as one of the nicest people on campus.
He was also a wonderful teacher. I was a pure math major and Professor Franklin was in the applied mathematics department, but I took his linear programming and game theory course on a whim. It rapidly became my favorite class. His teaching was exceptionally clear and interesting. He even threw in, for no particular pedagogic reason that I've ever been able to discern, a proof of the "hairy ball" theorem. When I went to grad school I put his teaching to good use, because I was one of the few students in the department who could serve as a TA for our game theory course.
Professor Franklin joined the faculty in 1957 so I'm sure his passing was from natural causes of one sort or another. He will be missed. --Bob
RIP Joel Franklin
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RIP Joel Franklin
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