From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3189 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: May and Beck Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:27:30 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019145 7630 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:32:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories List Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Mar 30 18:53:48 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FP60n-0006jW-Iu for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:53:05 -0400 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 135 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3189 Archived-At: I asked Peter May where he had commented on the relevance of Jon's work to his own: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: We'll talk (This refers to being together at the Mac Lane memorial fest - where others of you will be also) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:11:07 -0600 From: Peter May To: jds@math.upenn.edu No time to write, though. The paper was ``On H-spaces and infinite loop spaces''. The work of his I most liked concerned distributivity laws and monads, which I only learned about after rediscovering it for myself while doing multiplicative infinite loop space theory. See you next week, Peter