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Goodbye, Wilf
Wilf, you will be missed...

5 January 2007

by Huw Collingbourne

It is with great sadness that I announce the death of Wilf Hey.

Wilf wrote the wonderfully eccentric and always fascinating Mathematical Digressions column in Bitwise and is well known for the Wilf’s Workshop column in PC Plus magazine.

I always looked forward to our long and rambling telephone conversations in which Wilf and I frequently discussed a bizarre range of subjects ranging from mathematics to magic and often digressing into languages, music, science, art, life, the universe and (almost) everything in between. He really was a man of great intellect, boundless enthusiasm and considerable charm.

Wilf died on January 2nd, 2007. He will be very keenly missed. I extend my deepest sympathy to his wife.