Professor John Coates (1945-2022) We are sad to learn of the death of John Coates FRS, Sadleirian Professor 1986-2012. John was a distinguished number theorist and a dynamic Head of DPMMS 1991-97. 

Professor Peter Whittle (27 February 1927 - 10 August 2021)  Peter was the first Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research, from 1967 until his retirement in 1994.

Sir David Cox (1924 -2022), one of the fathers of modern statistics was lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory 1950-56, later Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck and then Imperial College, and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.

With sadness the Department must announce  the death of Jan Saxl, (5 June 1948-2 May 2020) Professor of Algebra and Fellow of Caius College. The Guardian Obituary  Gonville & Caius College Obituary.