From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8489 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Our friend Bob Walters Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:47:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: , Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= 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 1422833850 7660 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2015 23:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 23:37:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Giuseppe Rosolini , "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Feb 02 00:37:26 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 1YI44z-0000Qp-EN for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:37:25 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:35516) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YI43v-0002X7-Jg; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YI43v-0006O7-7G for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:36:19 -0400 Thread-Topic: categories: Re: Our friend Bob Walters Thread-Index: AQHQPilpC+OvjQQmK0Kx6ql6I2ktHJzb4QB/ In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US, en-CA Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8489 Archived-At: Dear Giuseppe, dear all,=0A= =0A= I am shocked to learn that Bob Walters is gone.=0A= I knew him from the time I visited Max Kelly in Australia.=0A= He was a very friendly person with a good sense of humor.=0A= And a good mathematician too.=0A= He was an adventurer, both in math and in life.=0A= The last time I saw him was at the CT2010 meeting in Genova.=0A= I am using his work with Carboni and Kasangian in my latest paper=0A= with Gambino.=0A= =0A= My deepest condoleance to his friends and family,=0A= Andr=E9=0A= =0A= =0A= ________________________________________=0A= From: Giuseppe Rosolini [rosolini@unige.it]=0A= Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 5:07 AM=0A= To: wlawvere; categories@mta.ca=0A= Subject: categories: Re: Our friend Bob Walters=0A= =0A= Dear Bill, dear all,=0A= =0A= this is terribly sad news. I feared the worst when Bob did not show up at C= ambridge for CT2014, but hoped that it was just a wrong feeling.=0A= =0A= The strongest and happiest link I had with Bob was in the organization of t= wo major conferences at Como and Genova: in both occasions the many, strang= ely difficult tasks which we had to confront always appeared easier than th= ey were because of his willingness to make things work and of his amazing s= ense of humour.=0A= =0A= My image of Bob is forever connected to cartesian bicategories (I, II, III,= ...). They constitute landmarks in the research in mathematics, and I am ce= rtain they will prove fundamental in the philosophy of the subject in the d= ecades to come. It is the saddest of thoughts that I shall not discuss it w= ith him any more.=0A= =0A= At this terrible moment my heart is with Nicoletta and Sofia.=0A= =0A= Pino=0A= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]