From: "Tierney, Myles" <tierney.myles@uqam.ca>
To: "Joyal, André" <joyal.andre@uqam.ca>,
"Andreas Blass" <ablass@umich.edu>,
categories@mta.ca
Subject: RE : categories: Albrecht Dold, R.i.P.
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 04:30:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RCsnV-0006AO-Io@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RCW9o-0004A8-Dg@mlist.mta.ca>
Dold gave two courses in algebraic topology while I was a graduate student
at Columbia, 1961-62 I think. They were really beautiful. Apart from Sammy's course
on homological algebra, they were the only lectures I learned something from, I still
have the notes. Albrecht Dold was a wonderful mathematician, and a very decent person.
I think we will all miss him.
Myles Tierney
-----Original Message-----
From: Joyal, André [mailto:joyal.andre@uqam.ca]
Sent: Fri 10/7/2011 6:18 PM
To: Andreas Blass; categories@mta.ca
Subject: categories: RE : categories: Albrecht Dold, R.i.P.
I have meet Dold only a couple of times.
He always made a big impression on me.
I remember very well his talk at the conference in honour of Samy Eilenberg in 1984.
He spoke on a categorical formulation of Lefschetz fixed points theorem using S-duality and trace.
It was a very beautiful mixture of category theory and topology.
He received a standing ovation for his talk!
He is one of my mathematical heros.
AJ
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-09 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 1:13 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-10-07 13:15 ` Andreas Blass
2011-10-07 21:13 ` Ronnie Brown
2011-10-07 22:18 ` RE : categories: " Joyal, André
2011-10-09 8:30 ` Tierney, Myles [this message]
2011-10-08 7:27 ` Ross Street
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