From: Aleks Kissinger <aleks0@gmail.com>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
Cc: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Jim Lambek
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:54:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1WziBg-0006vi-1S@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1WzIzo-0001Sw-Sa@mlist.mta.ca>
I only met Jim Lambek for the first time last year, but consider
myself lucky to have gotten the chance to meet one of the most
creative people, and biggest personalities, in the field. I'm sure he
will be sorely missed.
Aleks
On 24 June 2014 02:55, Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> I regret to inform you all that Jim died this afternoon. His son says it
> was congestive heart failure which is as good a way as any to describe
> dying of old age. He was still coming to seminar last fall and celebrated
> his 91st birthday in December in pretty good shape, but has been gradually
> going downhill since. I don't believe he came to the office since late
> fall. He had a good run.
>
> Michael
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-24 1:55 Michael Barr
2014-06-24 7:36 ` Joyal, André
2014-06-25 12:40 ` Robert Seely
2014-06-24 8:54 ` Aleks Kissinger [this message]
2014-06-24 9:29 ` Dana Scott
2014-06-25 9:46 ` René Guitart
2014-06-26 15:23 ` Tierney, Myles
2014-06-24 5:39 Fred E.J. Linton
2014-06-25 11:18 Bob Coecke
2014-06-26 7:25 Jean Bénabou
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