Peter Montgomery (IMPORTANT)

R.D. Silverman · 2014-05-26, 14:09

Hello, ALL

I just received a message from Arjen that Peter Montgomery
had been seriously hurt in an accident. Apparently this happened
some time ago since he was in the hospital for an extended period.

Does anyone know about this?

Bob

R.D. Silverman · 2014-05-26, 14:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

Hello, ALL

I just received a message from Arjen that Peter Montgomery
had been seriously hurt in an accident. Apparently this happened
some time ago since he was in the hospital for an extended period.

Does anyone know about this?

Bob

I received a message from Arjen that Peter suffered a fall in
his home and that it took several days for him to be found.

He was apparently unable to talk for months.

It is unclear from Arjen's description whether Peter had a stroke,
but it sure sounds that way.

Bob

R.D. Silverman · 2014-05-26, 15:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

I received a message from Arjen that Peter suffered a fall in
his home and that it took several days for him to be found.

He was apparently unable to talk for months.

It is unclear from Arjen's description whether Peter had a stroke,
but it sure sounds that way.

Bob

Peter is now living in Thailand:

Peter Montgomery
c/o Richard Montgomery
MBE 2 #49
205/12 South Pattaya 2nd Rd
Nongprue, Banglamung
Chonburi, 20150 Thailand

xilman · 2014-05-26, 15:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

Hello, ALL

I just received a message from Arjen that Peter Montgomery
had been seriously hurt in an accident. Apparently this happened
some time ago since he was in the hospital for an extended period.

Does anyone know about this?

Bob

I heard a little about this a while ago from Joppe Bos. Joppe was working with Peter at MSR when the accident happened (though Joppe was out of town at the time).

I don't know much more about the situation.

Paul

R.D. Silverman · 2014-05-26, 18:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

I heard a little about this a while ago from Joppe Bos. Joppe was working with Peter at MSR when the accident happened (though Joppe was out of town at the time).

I don't know much more about the situation.

Paul

I doubt anyone else does either.

ewmayer · 2014-05-26, 22:05

Very sorry to hear this - is Richard his brother?

Might be time to pull out the old letter paper - Bob, Paul, any word from your contacts as to the state of Peter's mental faculties?

R.D. Silverman · 2014-05-26, 22:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Very sorry to hear this - is Richard his brother?

Might be time to pull out the old letter paper - Bob, Paul, any word from your contacts as to the state of Peter's mental faculties?

Yes, Richard is his brother.

Believe me, I hold Peter in the HIGHEST regard. If I had any
additional information, I would post it. Perhaps Joppe Bos
knows more. He was the one who found Peter after he fell.

ewmayer · 2014-05-26, 23:25

@Bob:

As do I. I know you and he cowrote several papers - in my case he was a great help and mentor back when I was first coding up an FFT-mul/IBDWT in the late 90s; we also exchanged numerous e-mails on the topic of the hybrid float/GF(M(p)^2) transform I have discussed elsewhere here on this forum. I hoped to eventually have opportunity to write some optimized code for that and maybe jointly write something up on it - alas, CPU trends in the interim have tipped the balance ever more in the float-math's favor.

We also shared a room at the Asilomar conference one year circa 1999 (+-1 if the WNTC take place in Asilomar in even years rather than odd).

He was always extremely generous with his time and insights.

jasonp · 2014-06-07, 18:43

I was forwarded some email that Joppe sent to the CARAMEL team at this time last year. At that point Peter was recovering very slowly and could talk again but still had occasional illucid moments. It's unclear from his account whether Peter had a stroke.

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2014-05-26, 22:05	#6
ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 3×53×73 Posts	Very sorry to hear this - is Richard his brother? Might be time to pull out the old letter paper - Bob, Paul, any word from your contacts as to the state of Peter's mental faculties?

2014-05-26, 23:25	#8
ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 3·53·73 Posts	@Bob: As do I. I know you and he cowrote several papers - in my case he was a great help and mentor back when I was first coding up an FFT-mul/IBDWT in the late 90s; we also exchanged numerous e-mails on the topic of the hybrid float/GF(M(p)^2) transform I have discussed elsewhere here on this forum. I hoped to eventually have opportunity to write some optimized code for that and maybe jointly write something up on it - alas, CPU trends in the interim have tipped the balance ever more in the float-math's favor. We also shared a room at the Asilomar conference one year circa 1999 (+-1 if the WNTC take place in Asilomar in even years rather than odd). He was always extremely generous with his time and insights.

2014-06-07, 18:43	#9
jasonp Tribal Bullet Oct 2004 2×3×19×31 Posts	I was forwarded some email that Joppe sent to the CARAMEL team at this time last year. At that point Peter was recovering very slowly and could talk again but still had occasional illucid moments. It's unclear from his account whether Peter had a stroke.