Widmung (Michael Eichmair)

Widmung (Michael Eichmair)

I dedicate my contribution to the project Maths+ to Otis Chodosh, his wife Alison Law, and the child they are expecting and who I cannot wait to meet.

I have known Otis since the Winter Quarter of 2007, when he was a Stanford freshmen and I was Leon Simon’s teaching assistant in the legendary course Math 52H - Honors Multivariable Mathematics. Aside from section, as most of my students then, Otis attended what we called extended section on Friday afternoons. I met Otis and my other students that quarter only a few days after my friend Isolde Field had passed away on January 2. All the love and care that I had learned from her splashed onto my students. Many of the bonds I formed then have lasted ever since and I have learned more from my students and mentees than I could ever teach them. This is particularly true of Otis, who has not only been my student, my mentee, my advisee joint with my friend Simon Brendle for his 2015 Stanford dissertation, which, incidentally, he defended on this day seven years ago, my brilliant collaborator, and my personal hero; he has been my friend. Otis has told me many years ago that his last name Chodosh is of Ukrainian origin. I have often thought of this these past ten weeks, and I will continue keeping it in my heart.

Alison, Otis, and your child: This is for you!

With love,
Michael

Univ.-Prof. Michael Eichmair, PhD
Vienna, May 12, 2022