Remembering Leo Kadanoff

On October 26th, 2015, I received an email from a colleague of my former dissertation supervisor, Leo Kadanoff, informing me that Leo had died that morning. It's now some time since his passing, but I still would like to pay my respects to him.

I came to know Leo when I was a math graduate student in 1987. It was an uncertain time in my mathematical education. I had finished my qualifying work and spent a semester doing research in probability at Cornell in the fall of 1986. Back at the Univ...