Talk:Yudell Luke

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Place of death wrong
As of 2017-02-17 Yudell's place of death is listed as "Riga, Russia". This seems not correct. I found two sources giving conflicting information on place of death:


 * The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive says he was born 26 June 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri, and died: 6 May 1983 in Moscow, Russia.


 * The UPI Archives from 1983-05-10 said, "The State Department notified the family of Luke's death by telegram Saturday. ... He died at Riga, Latvia". May 10, 1983, was a Tuesday, so the previous Saturday would have been 1983-05-07, the day after the date of death given by The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

CONCLUSION: Riga, Russia, is almost certainly wrong as the place of death. It would almost certainly be either Riga, Latvia, or Moscow -- and I assume the latter: It's more likely that the UPI story would be wrong, written a few days after the event, than a History of Mathematics written 15 years later, I think. I will change the article accordingly. DavidMCEddy (talk) 00:05, 19 February 2017 (UTC)