It is a great loss. I remember him well.
Very deep thinker and gentle person...

Sergei Soloviev

Le Mardi, Décembre 19, 2023 15:02 CET, Timothy Porter <t.porter.maths@gmail.com> a écrit:

> Dear All,
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> Phil's death is a great loss to us all. He and Marcia were good friends of myself and my wife. We last saw them in Llandudno, North Wales when they were on holiday. a few years ago. I had hoped to show Phil more of the area, but that is not to be.
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> I will miss his chats on Skype.
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> Tim Porter
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> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 13:45, JS Lemay <js.lemay@mq.edu.au<mailto:js.lemay@mq.edu.au>> wrote:
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> I am heartbroken about Phil's passing. Phil was my friend and a very important mentor to me. Phil was also one of the nicest persons I have ever met.
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> I met Phil when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Ottawa in my first year, I took group theory from him. After that I took various other classes from him like linear algebra and history of mathematics, which was a very fun class! Near the end of undergrad when I deciding what area of research to study, Phil was the one who first mentioned category theory to me. Afterwards, through all of my grad school, Phil was still a mentor to me: always supporting my research and listening to my ideas. But more importantly, Phil became a friend. We would often catch up at the FMCS conference or whenever I was passing through Ottawa again. We also both visited Edinburgh at the same time, and often went on hikes together then. Even this past year, Phil was still encouraging me.
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> I will miss Phil truly. Thank you for all the support, encourage, guidance, mentorship, friendship, and kindness you have shown me over the years. May you rest in peace.
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> — JS PL
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> On Dec 18, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Richard Blute <rblute@uottawa.ca<mailto:rblute@uottawa.ca>> wrote:
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> It is with great sadness that we convey the news to the category theory community that our good friend and colleague Phil Scott passed away this morning (18th December, 2023) after a long battle with cancer.
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> Phil’s many contributions to category theory are well known. Phil and Jim Lambek essentially invented the field of categorical proof theory with a series of papers that culminated in the book “Introduction To Higher-Order Categorical Logic”, which is still the standard text on the subject. Phil’s research went well beyond these initial works: he made major contributions to theoretical computer science, linear logic, inverse semigroup theory and recursion theory.
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> Those of us who knew him personally will always think of him as a mentor, a friend and a genuinely kind soul.
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> Rick Blute
> Robin Cockett
> Simon Henry
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