From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8169 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dana Scott Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Jim Lambek Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:29:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Dana Scott NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403683572 27640 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2014 08:06:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:06:12 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Jun 25 10:06:06 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 1WziDT-0006TO-LU for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:06:03 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45057) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WziCs-0003xG-4e; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:05:26 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WziCt-0006xN-IE for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:05:27 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8169 Archived-At: On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:55 AM, 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 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 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]