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Raymond Paley
Times obituary
Our Vancouver Correspondent telegraphs that Mr. Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a brilliant young mathematician, was killed on Sunday by an avalanche at Deception Pass, Fossil Mountain, in the Rockies. Park wardens and a member of the Canadian Mounted Police recovered the body, which has been brought to Banff. Mr. Paley was skiing alone at an altitude of 9,600 ft., but his death was witnessed by companions lower down the mountainside. He was only 25.
Mr. Paley, who was an Old Etonian, was generally recognized among the authorities on his subject as one of the most brilliant mathematicians whom Cambridge has produced since the War. He was a Pemberton and Yeats prize-man, and a Baldwin scholar and research scholar in 1927. He was a Wrangler with distinction in Class L, Part I, and was also in Class 1, Part II, of the Mathematical Tripos, and won a Smith's prize in 1930, when he was elected a Fellow of Trinity. He won one of the Rockefeller International Fellowships and went to study with Professor Wiener at the Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, last autumn and was spending a holiday in the Canadian Rockies. He had already published in technical journals about a dozen mathematical papers of outstanding merit. Mr. Paley was physically large and strong and was particularly fond of winter sports. His home was at Bournemouth.
Our Vancouver Correspondent telegraphs that Mr. Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a brilliant young mathematician, was killed on Sunday by an avalanche at Deception Pass, Fossil Mountain, in the Rockies. Park wardens and a member of the Canadian Mounted Police recovered the body, which has been brought to Banff. Mr. Paley was skiing alone at an altitude of 9,600 ft., but his death was witnessed by companions lower down the mountainside. He was only 25.
Mr. Paley, who was an Old Etonian, was generally recognized among the authorities on his subject as one of the most brilliant mathematicians whom Cambridge has produced since the War. He was a Pemberton and Yeats prize-man, and a Baldwin scholar and research scholar in 1927. He was a Wrangler with distinction in Class L, Part I, and was also in Class 1, Part II, of the Mathematical Tripos, and won a Smith's prize in 1930, when he was elected a Fellow of Trinity. He won one of the Rockefeller International Fellowships and went to study with Professor Wiener at the Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, last autumn and was spending a holiday in the Canadian Rockies. He had already published in technical journals about a dozen mathematical papers of outstanding merit. Mr. Paley was physically large and strong and was particularly fond of winter sports. His home was at Bournemouth.
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