Re: Alex

Re: Alex

[Fred E.J. Linton]

[Note from moderator: Jack may refer to a nice picture linked from:
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~ct99/  ]

Jack Duskin wrote, recently, without being terribly specific,

> There is a marvelous picture of Saunders and Alex chairing the Coimbra
> CT99 conference. Everyone who knows them should see it.

A few neat, if low-res, pictures of Alex (and Saunders) at Coimbra 
may be found as the jpegs

http://home.att.net/~b.mikolajewska/booknook/titles/Symposium/Sym-03.jpg
http://home.att.net/~b.mikolajewska/booknook/titles/Symposium/Sym-25.jpg

or on the book pages

http://home.att.net/~b.mikolajewska/booknook/titles/Symposium/S-06.htm
http://home.att.net/~b.mikolajewska/booknook/titles/Symposium/S-19.htm

and those before and after. While these may well NOT be the images 
Jack meant, they may do until he provides more specific references.

Of course, I, like all who had the privilege of coming to know Alex
and Grace, mourn the passing of this cosmopolitan gentleman, quiet
scholar, and supportive enthusiast for category theory. Would that I
might know how to support Grace in these terrible hours: my heart goes
out to her, as also to his children, both biological and mathematical.

-- Fred

RE: Alex

[jim stasheff]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Fwd: RE: Alex
Date: 	Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:33:45 +0100
From: 	Timothy Porter <t.porter@bangor.ac.uk>
Reply-To: 	t.porter@bangor.ac.uk
To: 	jds@math.upenn.edu
CC: 	noson@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu, Ronnie Brown 
<ronnie.profbrown@btinternet.com>



Dear Jim, Noson and Ronnie,
(I am copying this in to Ronnie as he has more idea of how to add to
Wikipedia than I do.)

Was there ever an obituary from CUNY, or elsewhere?

Perhaps ask the cat theory bulletin board?

Tim




   On 01/10/2012 21:22, jim stasheff wrote:
> On 10/1/12 12:40 PM, Timothy Porter wrote:
>> I have added those. There does not seem to be much on Alex's life.
>> e.g. St Andrews history pages or Wikipedia.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Noson,
> Do you know anything more about his life? Any surviving relations?
>
> jim
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/10/2012 14:05, jim stasheff wrote:
>>> Noson asked me to forward this to you for inclusion as appropriate in
>>> the Alex Heller piece
>>>
>>> jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: RE: Alex
>>> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:58:41 -0400
>>> From: Noson S. Yanofsky <noson@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
>>> To: <jds@math.upenn.edu>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There are so many other beautiful papers that he wrote. It would be a
>>> shame
>>> not to include them.
>>> Here are some other papers that are quoted a lot.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dominical categories: recursion theory without elements.
>>> (with Di Paola, Robert A.)J. Symbolic Logic 52 (1987), no. 3, 594-635.
>>>
>>>
>>> On the representability of homotopy functors.
>>> J. London Math. Soc. (2) 23 (1981), no. 3, 551-562.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stable homotopy categories.
>>> Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 74 1968 28-63
>>>
>>>
>>> On stochastic processes derived from Markov chains.
>>> Ann. Math. Statist. 36 1965 1286-1291
>>>
>>>
>>> The loop-space functor in homological algebra.
>>> Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 96 1960 382-394
>>>
>>>
>>> Homological algebra in abelian categories.
>>> Ann. of Math. (2) 68 1958 484-525
>>>
>>>
>>> Relative homotopy.
>>> J. London Math. Soc. (2) 44 (1991), no. 3, 537-552.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Noson
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jim stasheff [mailto:jds@math.upenn.edu]
>>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 7:42 AM
>>> To: Noson S. Yanofsky
>>> Subject: Alex
>>>
>>> Noson
>>>
>>> Have a look at
>>>
>>> http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Alex%20Heller
>>>
>>> and see what should be added to it.
>>>
>>> Any of his other students who should contribute?
>>>
>>> jim
>>>
>>>

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Re: Alex

[John Duskin]

Curiously, Fred's marvelous pictures do not include the one I have of Saund=
ers and Alex (taken by the conference photographer). I don't know how to pu=
t it on the web.

Alex

[John Duskin]

There is a marvelous picture of Saunders and Alex chairing the Coimbra
CT99 conference. Everyone who knows them should see it.