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Background
Kadir Aziz was a renowned mathematician (born 1923 in Afghanistan) who passed away at 92 years old in Maryland on March 26, 2016. He was a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1989. Most of his early educationand childhood was spent in Paris due to his father being the Afghan ambassador located there at the time.[1]

Education/Career
Dr. Kadir Aziz started his professional education by receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1952 from Wilson Teachers College. Shortly after, in 1954, he completed a Master’s degree at George Washington University. At the Univer-sity of Maryland, he enlisted into the doctoral program for mathematics where he wrote his dissertation "On Higher Order Boundary Value Problems for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two and Three Variables" in 1958. Kadir Aziz continued his career by becoming a Professor of Mathematics at Georgetown University in  1963. In 1967,  he moved to UMBC, where he became a faculty member in the school’s College of Science before an AdjunctResearch  Professor at UMCP  (University  of  Maryland,  Central  Park),  where he became Professor of Mathematics and Statistics back at UMBC. He was the supervisor for approximately 14 dissertations at these universities.[1]

Honors/Contributions
Dr. Aziz is considered a pioneer in numerical analysis research of partial differential equations. A commonly used method for problems in the engineeringand science fields, called the Finite Element Method (FEM), was also a resultof the research between Kadir and others. This research was funded by grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, and the Naval Surface Weapons Center.[1]

Aziz is credited with funding the Aziz Mathematics Scholarship which pays for an academic year based off of excellence in mathematics.[2] Along with this, he was the sponsor of the Aziz Lecture series. These lectures gathered other renowned mathematicians  to  UMCP  (University  of  Maryland,  Central  Park) to  teach  lectures  about  various  topics  such  as  numerical  analysis,  differential equations, etc.[3]