From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: RE: Jim Lambek Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:36:09 +0000 Message-ID: References: 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 1403683432 26124 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2014 08:03:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:03:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Barr , Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Jun 25 10:03:46 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 1WziBG-00053r-2u for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45043) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WziAc-0003dr-FZ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:03:06 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WziAd-0006su-EU for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:03:07 -0300 Thread-Topic: categories: Jim Lambek In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US, en-CA Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8167 Archived-At: Jim Lambek was the founder of the Montreal school of category theory. =0A= He made many foundamental contributions to algebra, category theory and cat= egorical logic. =0A= His paper on multicategories and deductive systems is marking the birth of = linear logic.=0A= Let me point out that his notion of muticategory is more general than that = of operad introduced later by others. =0A= I often use his elegant theorem on the initial algebra of an endofunctor. = =0A= =0A= =0A= I hope I can tell the story right: =0A= Lambek immigrated from Germany to Canada just before WWII. =0A= During the war, he was put in a concentration camp by the Canadian gover= nment =0A= because he was German. But he was also a Jew. =0A= He once told me that he began to learn mathematics in the camp.=0A= =0A= -Andr=E9 Joyal=0A= =0A= ________________________________________=0A= From: Michael Barr [barr@math.mcgill.ca]=0A= Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 9:55 PM=0A= To: Categories list=0A= Subject: categories: Jim Lambek=0A= =0A= I regret to inform you all that Jim died this afternoon. His son says it= =0A= was congestive heart failure which is as good a way as any to describe=0A= dying of old age. He was still coming to seminar last fall and celebrated= =0A= his 91st birthday in December in pretty good shape, but has been gradually= =0A= going downhill since. I don't believe he came to the office since late=0A= fall. He had a good run.=0A= =0A= Michael=0A= =0A= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]