David G. Mead passed away on September 19, 2016, at the age of 94.
He began study at Columbia University in New York, but delayed his degree with the start of World War II. He served as a sergeant in the US Army in the Pacific theater. When David returned after his honorable discharge in 1946, he earned his Ph.D. in 1959 with the dissertation Linear and Nonlinear Differential Polynomials. He met his wife, Alba Saba, while at Columbia, and began his teaching career there.
