From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8484 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Our friend Bob Walters Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:35:42 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422799988 13088 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2015 14:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 14:13:08 +0000 (UTC) To: wlawvere , "categories" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Feb 01 15:13:08 2015 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 1YHvGq-0008DS-DX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:13:04 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:34346) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YHvG0-0000Zl-4z; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHvFy-00065c-O9 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:12:10 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8484 Archived-At: 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 p=E8re 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] = --- ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:23:21 AM EST From: wlawvere To: 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 decade= s. > = > 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= =2E = > He published one of the first books applying category theory to compute= r = > science, and was one of the main developers of Yoneda structures and ot= her = > explicit concepts guiding category theory in geometry and logic. > = > He is sadly missed by his friends and his colleagues all over the world= =2E > = > My deepest condolences go to his family. > = > Bill Lawvere > = > = > = > = > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ] [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]