From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8329 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ross Street Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dietmar Schumacher Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:41:49 +1000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Ross Street NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411407196 15124 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2014 17:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "" , Heide Schumacher To: Robert Pare Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Sep 22 19:33:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XW7U4-0008Ap-22 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:33:08 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:46807) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XW7TB-0006ud-My; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:32:13 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XW7TC-0000uC-1e for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:32:14 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8329 Archived-At: Dear Bob, This is a big shock and terrible news. Dietmar was one of a kind. Yes, as Bob says, always apologetic. Yet this reflected his sensitivity both in daily life and in = mathematics. We were fortunate that Dietmar and his lovely family visited Macquarie=20= for 5 months beginning in September 1984. They fitted in very well and the children liked the schools with the novel uniforms. I remember also a very pleasant visit to the Schumachers=92 in Wolfville where we learnt = more about the origins of the Cajuns we knew from New Orleans. Dietmar visited again for four months at the end of 1991 and stayed at our residential college: Dunmore Lang. He charmed the Principal and managers so much that I was invited to the Dunmore Lang Christmas Party for many years after that as appreciation for organizing Dietmar=92s = stay! Otherwise we met at conferences. A couple of times in Europe,=20 Dietmar would find a document in his briefcase to give me to read. The cobbled roads and arches we met under, usually in the wet, made Dietmar remark that he felt like a drug dealer in some 1930s movie. It is strange how the very little things stick in your memory. One time when I parked my car next to one with a dent in the side, Dietmar warned me that the owner might not be so careful opening their door and I should move. =20 =20 Please accept my deeply felt condolences, especially Heide and family. Ross [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]