From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7467 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Irving Adler, RIP Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:39:18 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349910453 4569 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2012 23:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:07:33 +0000 (UTC) To: "Fred E.J. Linton" , "categories" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Oct 11 01:07:36 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 1TM5NI-0006Tr-2v for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:07:36 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:47561) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TM5Lu-0001J7-6Q; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:06:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TM5MW-0004eq-FL for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:06:48 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7467 Archived-At: Some of us here may have overlapped Irving Adler at Columbia in the few y= ears he was there in the late '50s, or may have encountered him or his name or= work in other ways. I've just come to learn that he died last month, aged 99, = at his Vermont home. For obituaries, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/books/irving-adler-author-of-science-an= d-math-books-for-the-young-dies-at-99.html?_r=3D1& http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/teacher-and-writer-irving-= adler-dies-at-99/2012/09/30/d1ec0196-09c6-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.ht= ml -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]