From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6957 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Blass Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Albrecht Dold, R.i.P. Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:15:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Andreas Blass NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318011716 25035 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 18:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:21:56 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Oct 07 20:21:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCF3Q-0005nx-40 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:21:52 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:36021) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCF1G-0005wM-Mf; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:19:38 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCF1F-0001A1-AQ for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:19:37 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6957 Archived-At: Albrecht Dold taught the algebraic topology course that I took in my = first year as a graduate student. His beautifully organized = presentation of this material was largely responsible for my becoming = interested in category theory. He made both the power and the beauty of = functors evident. Andreas Blass Begin forwarded message: > From: "Fred E.J. Linton" > Date: 6 October, 2011 9:13:26 PM EDT > To: "categories" > Subject: categories: Albrecht Dold, R.i.P. > Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" >=20 > =46rom today's IMU newsletter: >=20 > | 6. DEATH OF ALBRECHT DOLD ON 26-09-2011. > | > | Albrecht Dold, known for fundamental contributions to algebraic > | topology, was born in Germany in 1928. He held positions in = Heidelberg, > | Z=FCrich, Princeton and Columbia. He has been Vice-president of IMU = in > 1995-98. >=20 > I particularly mourn his passing, as it was Dold's algebraic topology=20= > lectures at Columbia around 1961 (+/- 1) that taught me virtually all=20= > I know, or would ever learn later, about the Yoneda Lemma. >=20 > Born August 5, 1928, in Triberg, Germany, and barely a teenager during=20= > WW II, Dold would have been 83 at the time of his death. >=20 > -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]