Professor Michael Whiteman

Professor Michael Whiteman, mathematician, musician and mystic who turned 100 in November, died at his Bergvliet home .He had lived long enough to see copies of his sixth book, Universal Theology, or Life in Other Worlds, published earlier this year. It is Volume III of a series which includes details of his out-of-body experiences.Born in London in 1906, the youngest of four children, Whiteman attended Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA in mathematics, obtaining first class in the Maths Tripos.he was appointed junior lecturer in pure mathematics at UCT and on his retirement in 1972, was made Emeritus Professor.Whiteman was the author of more than 60 publications, six books and numerous papers on mysticism, philosophy of science, parapsychology, psychotherapy and the Indian scriptures of Sanskrit and Pali. Other ancient languages in which he was proficient were Vedic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, which enabled him to study religious texts in the original languages.