From: Timothy Porter <t.porter.maths@gmail.com>
To: JS Lemay <js.lemay@mq.edu.au>
Cc: Categories mailing list <categories@mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Phil Scott
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:02:19 +0100 [thread overview]
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Dear All,
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.
I will miss his chats on Skype.
Tim Porter
On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 13:45, JS Lemay <js.lemay@mq.edu.au<mailto:js.lemay@mq.edu.au>> wrote:
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.
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.
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.
— JS PL
On Dec 18, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Richard Blute <rblute@uottawa.ca<mailto:rblute@uottawa.ca>> wrote:
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.
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.
Those of us who knew him personally will always think of him as a mentor, a friend and a genuinely kind soul.
Rick Blute
Robin Cockett
Simon Henry
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-19 4:10 Richard Blute
2023-12-19 12:44 ` JS Lemay
2023-12-19 14:02 ` Timothy Porter [this message]
2023-12-19 14:18 ` Sergei Soloviev
2023-12-19 14:51 ` Prakash Panangaden
2023-12-19 15:29 ` Gordon Plotkin
2023-12-19 15:48 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2023-12-19 16:03 ` [EXT] " Bob Coecke
2023-12-19 17:08 ` Tom Leinster
2023-12-19 17:42 ` Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh
2023-12-19 22:16 ` Chris Heunen
2023-12-19 16:57 ` Sacha Ikonicoff
2023-12-19 17:45 ` Yan Steimle
2023-12-19 22:19 ` Michael Healy
2023-12-19 17:23 ` amp12
2023-12-19 17:46 ` Peter Hines
2023-12-19 19:25 ` Peter Selinger
2023-12-20 1:01 ` Ross Street
2023-12-20 9:33 ` Noam Zeilberger
2023-12-20 15:23 ` Steve Awodey
2023-12-20 17:17 ` Jason Parker
2023-12-20 19:49 ` Joyal, André
2023-12-20 21:00 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2023-12-20 21:20 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2023-12-20 21:25 ` Martin Escardo
2023-12-20 22:52 ` andrej.bauer
2023-12-20 22:10 ` Oosten, J. van (Jaap)
2023-12-21 15:23 ` [External] " James Lipton
2023-12-26 20:22 ` Dominic
2023-12-19 17:52 Jean-Baptiste Vienney
2023-12-21 15:12 Eduardo J. Dubuc
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