From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7836 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Daniel M. Kan, 1927-2013 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:10:41 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= 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 1375900144 20414 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2013 18:29:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 18:29:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Aug 07 20:29:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V78Tq-0004NT-QA for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:29:06 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:59734) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V78S1-00034j-Rk; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 15:27:13 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78S1-0003YY-TV for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 15:27:13 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7836 Archived-At: >From Clark Barwick, forwarded=20 -------------------------------- Dear colleagues and friends, On Sunday, 4 August, 2013, Daniel M. Kan died peacefully at his home in = Newton, MA, surrounded by his family. It was his 86th birthday. There = was a small burial service Monday afternoon. Dan received his Ph.D in 1955, and after short-term positions at = Columbia, Princeton, and Hebrew University, he joined the Department of = Mathematics at MIT in 1959, where he remained until his retirement in = 1993. Dan continued to do mathematics until the last week of his life. In his long career, Dan published more than 70 papers with 15 coauthors. = His lifelong mathematical pursuit was abstract homotopy theory, and many = of his ideas were so natural and flexible that they quickly became = incorporated into the very fabric of algebraic topology. He supervised = 15 Ph.D students (all of them at MIT), and he influenced many more = through his unique seminar in algebraic topology, which today is known = as the Kan Seminar. Clark _______________________________________________ ALGTOP-L mailing list [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]