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Death of Marc Yor

January 12th, 2014, 5:38 pm

 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 12th, 2014, 5:55 pm

Damn, yes. RIP.This hasn't been reported a lot on the internet.QuoteAcadémie des SciencesLe 10 janvier 2014, décès de Marc YorL'Académie des sciences a le regret de faire part du décès de Marc Yor survenu le 10 janvier 2014. Professeur à l'université Pierre et Marie Curie, Marc Yor avait été élu correspondant de l'Académie le 3 mars 1997, puis membre le 18 novembre 2003 dans la section de mathématique.L'oeuvre scientifique de Marc Yor était centrée sur l'étude du mouvement brownien et ses applications.
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 12th, 2014, 7:05 pm

RIP
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 12th, 2014, 9:39 pm

Sad news and I see he was relatively young, too. I always found his text with Revuz enormously helpful over the years.
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 12th, 2014, 10:56 pm

One of the great ones. RIP.
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 13th, 2014, 1:24 pm

RIP. I like his books, despite being so french.
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 13th, 2014, 3:08 pm

Marc wasn't very French, he didn't develop general theories but did many useful calculations. I had several questions to him but knew he was very ill and hoped he soon recovered
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 13th, 2014, 9:46 pm

RIP
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 20th, 2014, 3:23 pm

Does anyone have more information ? I've seen very little.A number of people were shocked by his death. When anyone dies suddenly and so young people want to have a better idea what happened---I guess partly as a question of our own mortality.
 
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Death of Marc Yor

January 30th, 2014, 3:20 pm

Extended Obituaryhttp://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/pitman/yor/obituary
 
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Death of Marc Yor

February 10th, 2014, 2:15 pm

Oh I didn't know this. How sad. I really admired his writing. I found a couple of his bigger papers to be very helpful to me.