Dear all,
To Rick Blute, Robin Cockett and Simon Henry
I am very sad to learn that Phil has left us for another world.I knew him from the time he was studying with Jim Lambek, about 50 years ago.I have a good memory of the lively discussions we had in a café in theMile-End near McGill. He was always eager to discuss new ideas andhe had an apparent limitless thirst for mathematics.His book with Lambek, "Introduction Higher Categorical Logic" is a landmark.He created the school of category theory in Ottawa.
I owe him a personal debt: a few years ago, he took the initiative of presentingmy case to the Jeffery-Willams prize of the CMS, which I won in 2022!Thank you Phil!
I wish there is a paradise for mathematicians, so they can continue their research.Phil was a good angel and we need help.
André Joyal
De : Jason Parker <jasonparker300@gmail.com>
Envoyé : 20 décembre 2023 12:17
À : Richard Blute <rblute@uottawa.ca>
Cc : Categories mailing list <categories@mq.edu.au>
Objet : Re: Phil ScottDear all,
I am very saddened to hear of Phil's passing. Phil was one of my PhD advisors at the University of Ottawa from 2015-2020 (along with Pieter Hofstra, who also sadly passed away in 2022). He was an extremely kind and supportive mentor in mathematics and in life. I also knew him to be a very caring and conscientious teacher, from when I served as a teaching assistant for his discrete mathematics course (on more than one occasion), and from when I took a graduate course with him on categorical logic.
I last saw him in person when I had a post-PhD-defense celebratory dinner at the Green Door restaurant in Ottawa (one of his favourites!), and in recent years I had seen him at various online seminars and conferences. I last spoke to him over e-mail in October, not knowing that that would be the last time we would speak.
May he rest in peace.
-Jason Parker
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 6:36 AM Richard Blute <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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