Photo by P. Halmos (July 1989); credit Briscoe Collections.
From the AustMS Secretary, Deborah Jackson.
It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of Life Member Prof William S Perriman who has been supporting our Society since 1976.
He principally worked at Curtin University in Western Australia.
Our condolences to his family and friends.
Kind Regards
Deborah
Excerpts from Graeme Cohen’s book ‘Counting Australia In’
- page 304, regarding WAIT:
“Perriman, born in Melbourne in 1941, went to WAIT as head of the School of Mathematics and Computing in 1979. From 1989 until well into the 1990s, he was influential in initiating and consolidating scientific exchange and collaboration with mathematicians in Vietnam. Perriman’s research interests were in industrial statistics and mathematics education; he retired in 1998 to become an adjunct professor in the Division of Engineering and Science at Curtin.” - page 317, regarding University of Notre Dame Australia:
“The University of Notre Dame Australia is Australia’s second private university. Located in Fremantle, Western Australia, it was established in 1989 and teaching commenced in 1992 in its undergraduate courses in arts, education, business, law and theology. As one of a number of jobs that Bill Perriman took on after early retirement from Curtin University, he is adjunct professor there, almost solely responsible for the development and rationalisation of its mathematics and statistics programs.”
