From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6960 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ross Street Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Albrecht Dold, R.i.P. Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:27:04 +1100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Ross Street NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318077641 16813 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 12:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories" To: "Fred E.J. Linton" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Oct 08 14:40:36 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 1RCWCi-0006ax-Fx for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44655) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCWBK-0005st-AT; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:39:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCWBI-0004EU-SE for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:39:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6960 Archived-At: One of the first papers Max Kelly told me to read when I started graduate work was Albrecht Dold, "Zur Homotopietheorie der Kettenkomplexe" Math. Ann. 140 1960 278=96298. When I returned with a complete translation into English, Max was very critical. He said that was not the way to read a paper in another language. Eventually I met Dold several times. At the invitation of Murray Adelman, Dold visited Macquarie. At the same time, Steve Schanuel was visiting me. This was an exciting time since the two visitors recognized that Dold's work on trace was relevant to Schanuel's work on Euler characteristic. The two charismatic guests were a delight to be around. They generated so much excitement about the mathematics. Albrecht Dold was a genuine European gentleman and I will remember him as looking much younger and energetic than his years.= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]