Re: [External] Phil Scott

[James Lipton <jlipton@wesleyan.edu>]

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Phil was an extraordinary researcher and a wonderful human being. The news is very sad.

I wonder if anyone has his wife’s email so i can send my condolences. I last saw them both at the programming semantics year at the Isaac Newton Center in Cambridge and have very good memories of the encounters…

— Jim Lipton

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 2:25 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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