Robert F Coleman

After battling multiple sclerosis for nearly three decades, the esteemed UC Berkeley mathematics professor died of a heart attack March 24, 2014. Coleman, born Nov. 22, 1954, began his career at UC Berkeley in 1983, four years before he received the MacArthur Fellowship for his research in mathematics. His research dealt primarily with number theory, p-adic analysis and arithmetic geometry. He is survived by his wife Tessa Drake-Coleman, his sister Rosalind, brother Mark, nephew Jeffrey and niece Elise.