Re: Our friend Bob Walters

["Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>]

Sad news yet again.

Only a year and a half ago, late in June of 2013, we were mourning 
Aurelio Carboni, at a Conference in his memory organized in Milano 
by none other than his friend and colleague Bob Walters. And now, 
far sooner than any of us would have wished, time has culled Bob 
himself from our earthly stage.

In Milano on June 26, 2013, at that Carboni memorial conference, I 
snagged a few pictures of Bob -- and of Lawvere père et fils -- using,
alas, just a simple cell phone camera. May I offer them as tribute to 
Bob's memory? -- 

: http://tlvp.net/~fej.math.wes/Milano-2013/index.htm .

And may I offer as well the URL of Bob's Insubria vita page:

: http://www.uninsubria.eu/research/dsat/cv_Walters.htm .

Sadly, -- Fred Linton

[PS: I'll gladly correct any infelicity in the posted date 
31.01.2015 if it's called to my attention. Thanks. -- FEJ] 
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------ Original Message ------
Received: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:23:21 AM EST
From: wlawvere <wlawvere@buffalo.edu>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: categories: Our friend Bob Walters

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> It is with great sorrow that I inform you of our loss of RFC Walters.
> 
> Bob has been a highly valued friend and collaborator for several decades.
> 
> One of the organizers of the Sydney Category Seminar, as well as of 
> International meetings at Como, his contributions to pure and applied 
> category theory remain of fundamental value in many diverse disciplines. 
> He published one of the first books applying category theory to computer 
> science, and was one of the main developers of Yoneda structures and other 
> explicit concepts guiding category theory in geometry and logic.
> 
> He is sadly missed by his friends and his colleagues all over the world.
> 
> My deepest condolences go to his family.
> 
> Bill Lawvere
> 
> 
> 
> 
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