From: Dana Scott <dana.scott@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Jim Lambek
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:29:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1WziCt-0006xN-IE@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1WzIzo-0001Sw-Sa@mlist.mta.ca>
On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:55 AM, 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
So sad to hear! Phil Scott, Mike Fourman, and I were just together
here in Edinburgh yesterday, where I gave a colloquium. We were
remembering old times and mentioned Jim Lambek especially. Please
convey our sincere condolences to the family.
-- Dana Scott
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 9:29 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
2014-06-24 9:29 ` Dana Scott [this message]
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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