Herb gross mit courseware computer

By Peter Chipman,OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant

We’re saddened to hear of the death of our friend Herb Gross, who passed away on May 27th at the age of 91.

Herb, whom we profiled on this blog in a post on the occasion of his 90th birthday last year, touched the lives of countless students worldwide through his series of videos on single variable calculus, multivariable calculus, and complex variables, differential equations, and linear algebra, first recorded about fifty years ago but still among the most popular resources on MIT OpenCourseWare and on OCW’s YouTube channel.

As news of Herb’s death has spread, those who benefited from his teaching have been quick to share their remembrances and tributes.

We would like to share a sampling of the comments we received in response to the post on our YouTube channel announcing his death:

“His lectures turned my fear of math into love.”

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