From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7463 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: RE: Alex Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:38:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <506A7CB9.6080500@bangor.ac.uk> Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349392602 12512 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2012 23:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:16:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Oct 05 01:16:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.134]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJuMA-0000vK-Jk for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:57:26 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:38544) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TJZBW-00062P-4X; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:21:02 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJZBr-0002Hp-BJ for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:21:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: <506A7CB9.6080500@bangor.ac.uk> Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7463 Archived-At: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Alex Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:33:45 +0100 From: Timothy Porter Reply-To: t.porter@bangor.ac.uk To: jds@math.upenn.edu CC: noson@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu, Ronnie Brown=20 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 >>> To: >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]