Marvin Knopp: 1933-2011
With great sadness we report that Professor Marvin Knopp passed away December 24 while visiting family in Florida. He joined the Department of Mathematics at Temple in 1976. Prior to coming to Temple he held appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1958 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under the direction of Paul Bateman. Professor Knopp was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois.
Professor Knopp was a leading expert in the theory of Modular Forms, and he twice gave invited addresses to meetings of the American Mathematical Society. He had over 70 publications. In 2007 the International Journal of Number Theory dedicated a volume in his honor.
Over the course of his career Professor Knopp supervised 20 Ph.D. students. He was active mathematically up to the time of his death, and he was supervising the Ph.D. thesis of Austin Daughton, who is currently writing a dissertation based on the research he completed under Professor Knopp's direction.
A brief appreciation, by Professor J. A. Paulos, can be found here.
Memorial activities are being planned.