From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8168 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aleks Kissinger Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Jim Lambek Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:54:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Aleks Kissinger NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403683486 26814 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2014 08:04:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories list To: Michael Barr Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Jun 25 10:04:41 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 1WziC6-0005eZ-IX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:04:38 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45050) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WziBe-0003lT-JK; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:04:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WziBg-0006vi-1S for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:04:12 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8168 Archived-At: 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 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 > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]