Michael E. O’Nan *69

Michael O’Nan, retired professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, died July 31, 2017, at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. He was 73.

Born in Fort Knox, Ky., O’Nan graduated from Stanford University in 1965. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1969.

O’Nan taught at Rutgers until retiring in 2011 as a professor of mathematics. He had published two books and had been working on a third. He discovered a series of numbers, now known as the O’Nan group.

O’Nan was a resident of Princeton for almost half a century and is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.

He was predeceased by his wife, Loulie. He is survived by a brother, a sister, and several nieces and nephews.

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