From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8154 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ross Street Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Reinhard Boerger Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:41:48 +1000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Ross Street NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402360938 10296 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2014 00:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Jun 10 02:42:11 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 1WuA8f-00053B-1b for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:35104) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WuA83-00059k-Qi; Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:41:31 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuA83-00050l-Em for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:41:31 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8154 Archived-At: On 8 Jun 2014, at 6:05 am, tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca wrote: > Reinhard was an extraordinarily talented mathematician, with a brought > and deep understanding of many areas of mathematics. His quick grasp = of > any kind of subject impressed many of his colleagues, especially his > pointed questions and comments in seminar settings. That is exactly how I remember Reinhard on my couple of visits to the = FernUniversitaet. He would understand a subject on a first hearing and make valuable = comments from a completely fresh viewpoint. This is very sad news. Ross [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]