From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3359 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Prof. Peter Johnstone" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Cohn obit Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 00:39:03 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019251 8407 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:34:11 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sun Jul 9 09:14:31 2006 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:14:31 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FzXzF-0004qT-II for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:02:09 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 16 Original-Lines: 11 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3359 Archived-At: I can confirm that Paul Cohn had a keen interest in categories. As Editor of the L.M.S. Mathematical Monographs series in the 1970s, he was responsible for accepting my first topos theory book for publication in that series, and he didn't just rely on referees -- he really wanted to understand for himself what the book was about. Peter Johnstone