Alan Weir, Emeritus Reader of Mathematics, died on 24 December 2008, aged 81.
Alan came to the University as Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Education in 1966.
He was a mathematician with wide scholarly interests: he wrote three widely read textbooks, Linear Geometry with Karl Gruenberg; a major revision of Group Theory with Walter Ledermann; and two volumes on Lebesgue Integration and Measure, a set book in universities around the world.
Alan was an exceptionally gifted lecturer, understanding of his student audiences and going to great lengths to present a subject in the most attractive and lucid manner possible.
He will be remembered by generations of students and by well over a hundred trainee teachers of mathematics to whom he gave pastoral care, and by students and staff at schools and colleges throughout Sussex.
After his move to Varndean College in the 1980s he continued to contribute to the University's outreach to local schools until his retirement in 1992.
Colleagues will remember a man of great personal charm, always ready to give help and encouragement.
There will be a memorial service at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 272 Dyke Road, Brighton, at 2pm on Saturday 31 January.
Peter Bushell, Emeritus Professor, Mathematics department