From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8139 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: K.A. Hardie Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 00:17:50 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401037471 20186 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2014 17:04:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca list" , Peter Witbooi To: Ross Street Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun May 25 19:04:25 2014 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 1WobqP-0002kP-5z for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 19:04:21 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:60568) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Wobpg-0001BX-FM; Sun, 25 May 2014 14:03:36 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wobpf-0005gC-7x for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 25 May 2014 14:03:35 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8139 Archived-At: I never meet neither know Keith Hardie or his mathematics, but taking of true gentlemen and talented mathematician, I always remember Max Kelly. On 24/05/14 02:59, Ross Street wrote: > I agree with Fred and Marco. > Keith Hardie was one of a vanishing breed of true gentlemen. > > When I visited Cape Town in the early 1980s, we discovered > we had a common interest in diagrams of interlocking sequences > (so called by TCT (Terry) Wall). > Keith?s interlocking sequences arose from homotopy groups, > mine from homology. > He kept encouraging me until I wrote up a result I had while writing, > but did not include in, my thesis. > I really enjoyed revisiting that result and improving some techniques. > > That first visit to South Africa and an evening at Keith?s home left a lasting impression on me. > We only met a few times after that, the last being CT2009. > > It is very sad news, Peter. Please convey my condolences to the family. > > Ross [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]