From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8173 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean_B=E9nabou?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Jim Lambek Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:25:33 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean_B=E9nabou?= NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403812177 21974 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2014 19:49:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:49:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Jun 26 21:49:32 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 1X0Ffn-0008Nc-Am for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:49:31 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45293) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X0Fex-0002MH-3W; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:48:39 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0Few-0004xn-On for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:48:38 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8173 Archived-At: Many persons before me have talked about Jim as a mathematician, and of = his important contributions in many domains of mathematics, there is not = much I can add on this subject. I met him for the first time in the winter of 1966-67. I was visiting = Chicago for the academic year, and he invited me at Mac Gill for few = days to give lectures at the category seminar. At that time he was = already a well known mathematician with important contributions. But at = that first meeting I discovered the man. A man with a vast culture in = many non mathematical domains, a lot of personal charm, a big sense of = humor, full of life and love of life. I met him a countless number of times, in Montreal which I visited very = often, in Paris where he attend my seminar and gave a few talks, and in = many conferences, and my first impression was confirmed and deepened.=20 As all of us, I shall miss him.= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]