From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6381 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timothy Porter Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Hilton"s death Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:44:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Timothy Porter NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290023632 25891 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2010 19:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: Andree Ehresmann Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Nov 17 20:53:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.114]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIo4e-0003fm-1D for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:53:44 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:41164) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIo46-0001cK-7U; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIo42-00065f-6O for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:53:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6381 Archived-At: Dear Andr=E9e and everyone. Peter's death was announced on the Alg. Top bulletin board last week.=20 There were several links to other obituaries. I can send them to anyone who is interested.=20 There was a lot of mention of Peter's work at Bletchley Park. Tim On 16/11/2010 15:44, Andree Ehresmann wrote: > Jean Pedersen has just informed me of the death of Peter Hilton.=20 > Hereafter is part of an obituary notice in a Binghampton paper. > We knew well Peter since Charles had invited Peter in Strasbourg while=20 > he was still a young student, and later he visited us several times in=20 > Paris and later in Amiens > Andree > > > Peter Hilton, 87, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Binghamton=20 > Un=EFversity, died on Saturday, November 6, 2010. He is survived by his= =20 > wife Margaret, sons and daughter-in-law, Nicholas Hilton, Binghamton=20 > and Timothy and Catherine Hilton, Seattle, Wa., two grandsons, one=20 > great granddaughter and brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Sydney and Mary=20 > Hilton, North Wales, U.K. > Peter was born in London, and educated at Oxford University. During=20 > World War II, at age 18, he was recruited from Oxford, because of his=20 > mathematical ability and knowledge of German, to work at Bletchley=20 > Park, the secret British faciiity dedicated to breaking German codes.=20 > Th=EFs project was ledby Alan Turing, the celebrated mathematician and=20 > founder of computer science, with whom the young Peter Hilton worked=20 > closely. Initially, Peter worked on breaking the Enigma code, and,=20 > later, on the more refined Fish code. Once the British Official=20 > Secrets Act was lifted in the 1980's, his lectures about the years at=20 > Bletchley Park were highly popular at venues all over the world. He=20 > gave several such lectures at Binghamton University. > After the War Peter obtained his doctorate from Oxford. Peter went on=20 > to hold academic positions at Cambridge and Manchester Un=EFversities,=20 > and a Chair at the University of Birmingham. > In 1962, he moved to the United States where he was Professor of=20 > Mathematics, first at Cornell, then at the University of Washington=20 > and the Batteile Institute. He helcl the Louis D, Beaumont Chair at=20 > Case Western Reserve University for a number of years, ending in 1982=20 > when he became Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University,=20 > retiring in 1995. > Peter Hilton was one of the most influential mathematicians of his=20 > generation. He made major contributions to algebraic topology and=20 > homological algebra. His influence on these subjects has been=20 > profound. In his later years he was also a significant figure in=20 > Mathematics Education, especially in Continental Europe. He published=20 > hundreds of research articles and many books on mathematics and=20 > mathematics education, and he lectured at conferences into his=20 > mid-eighties. > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]