From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8485 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Rosolini Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Our friend Bob Walters Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:07:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Giuseppe Rosolini NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422800024 13733 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2015 14:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 14:13:44 +0000 (UTC) To: wlawvere , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Feb 01 15:13:43 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 1YHvHS-0000BM-Uw for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:13:43 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:34352) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YHvGk-0000ca-VD; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHvGj-00066f-6w for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:12:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8485 Archived-At: Dear Bill, dear all, this is terribly sad news. I feared the worst when Bob did not show up = at Cambridge for CT2014, but hoped that it was just a wrong feeling. The strongest and happiest link I had with Bob was in the organization = of two major conferences at Como and Genova: in both occasions the many, = strangely difficult tasks which we had to confront always appeared = easier than they were because of his willingness to make things work and = of his amazing sense of humour.=20 My image of Bob is forever connected to cartesian bicategories (I, II, = III,...). They constitute landmarks in the research in mathematics, and = I am certain they will prove fundamental in the philosophy of the = subject in the decades to come. It is the saddest of thoughts that I = shall not discuss it with him any more. At this terrible moment my heart is with Nicoletta and Sofia. Pino= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]