Robert Bartoszynski will be remembered not only as a talented statistician and teacher, but as a man who faced life with a sense of humor.Bartoszynski, a professor in the department of statistics, died Jan. 17 at the age of 64. Colleagues and friends gathered at his funeral Wednesday. Dennis Pearl, a professor in the department of statistics, recalled Bartoszynski’s love for his students and teaching. Bartoszynski once gave a multiple choice exam in which the answers were: a) 3, b) none of the above, c) none of the above and d) none of the above.”In his typical style, the answer was ‘b’,” Pearl said with a laugh.The late professor made life-long friends with his graduate students. A former student came from Texas to attend the funeral, Pearl said.Bartoszynski’s friend, Jan Czekajewski, spoke about his sense of humor and love for telling stories.The last time Czekajewski heard his stories was after Bartoszynski returned from the hospital following a leg amputation.”He was joking that he now had a bionic artificial leg as he had seen on television,” Czekajewski said.”I am sorry that I will hear no more of (Bartoszynski’s) stories, but I am happy that I had an opportunity to share many hours and stories with him, which I will never forget,” Czekajewski said.Bartoszynski grew up in Poland. During World War II, his family sheltered a Jewish man from the Nazis. His parents didn’t allow him to go to school because the man was staying with them. Bartoszynski was tutored by the man on his farm in Poland, Pearl said.Bartoszynski came to the United States in 1958 to continue his education. He went to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. He then returned to Poland where he received his doctorate from The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.He worked for the academy and was a visiting professor at several U.S. and Australian universities before coming to Ohio State. He began teaching at OSU in 1983.Bartoszynski wrote about 80 scientific articles, books and book chapters, and received numerous prestigious awards, grants and appointments to mathematical institutes.