Review of the Proceedings of the Special Session of the Sixty-First Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society in Honour of James Fairley McKenzie (1938-2015)

摘要

James Fairley McKenzie, who was a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Natal from 1981 to 1998, would have been 80 in May 2018. A Special Session was held in his honour at the Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society at Rhodes University in December 2018. At the Special Session his career in research and teaching was outlined, appreciations by his former PhD students and the early career academics he mentored were made, papers in the areas of research to which he and his students had contributed were presented, and his legacy in research, supervision and mentoring was assessed. A summary of the Special Session is presented in this paper.