Wyatt Jules Desormeaux Obituary (1974

Wyatt Jules Desormeaux, 46 of Mosheim Tennessee went to be with the lord on Monday November 30,2020. Born of a premature birth in Rutland, Vermont ( not exspected to live at all) yet was raised by his parents Robert and Lorraine Desormeaux in New York State, Florida, and Tennessee where he took final residence in 1986. He attented Light of the World Christian Academy and Bible Baptist Schools in Florida and First Church of God in Greenville, Tennessee for his elementry education. He attended Tusculum College at age 15 with scholarships from Magnavox and Tusculum. He tranferred to East Tennessee State University (ETSU) where he was awarded two Quillen scholarships. He became a member of MENZA and completed his Bachlors in Physics degree and his Bachlors in Mathematics at ETSU under Dr. Robert Gardner, his life long friend. Next he continued in Mathematics in the Master’s Program at ETSU with his mentor and mathematical mother, Dr. Theresa Haynes, where he earned his Master’s degree in discrete mathematics. While in that program he was awarded a teaching assistant scholarship to the program and also participated as head of the Statistical Lab. Lastly for his Ph.D, he attended the University of Kwazulu-Natal Durban South Africa and transferred to the University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa under the tutelage of Michael Henning, Ph.D University of South Africa, and Teresa Haynes, Ph.D, East Tennessee State University. He received scholarships from Votacon, Inc. In Africa and his work was primarily focused on designing the mathematics used in satellite locations, maximizing computer server locations, medical biological works and other uses. Wyatt had 31 publications accredited to his name and collaborated with Drs. Michael A. Henning, Teresa Hayes, Anders Yoh, Lucas van der Merve, (Wyatt’s mathematical uncle), Pete Slater, Stephen Hedentniema, and other friends and colleagues on a book on Graph Theory that was released in 2020 and will be used to teach future Graph Theory classes.