Re: Sibe Mardesic

[Marco Grandis <grandis@dima.unige.it>]

Together with a high appreciation of his work and seminars, Sibe  
keeps a special place in my heart, as a dear friend and one of the  
deepest personalities I met.
Thanks to Luciano for his warm memory of him
Marco Grandis

On 19 Jun 2016, at 12:24, l.stramaccia wrote:

> Dear colleagues.,
> it is with great sorrow that I inform you that Sibe Mardesic passed  
> two days ago in Zagreb, at the age of 90.
> Although Sibe was not a categorist but a general and algebraic  
> topologist, I am sure that most of you knew his name and possibly  
> his work dedicated from the early 80’s to Shape and Strong Shape  
> Theory. Anyway he was deeply aware of categorical methods as  
> testified by the large amount of his papers,  the book  <Shape  
> theory,  North Holland(1982)> with Jack Segal, finishing with the  
> monumental <Strong shape and homology, Springer  (2000)>. He was  
> the first to categorize Borsuk’s Shape theory adopting the “inverse  
> system”  approach. Less than one month ago he told me the he was  
> hardly working on a problem concerning products in the strong shape  
> category of topological spaces.
> For all who had the pleasure and the honor tho know him and to work  
> with him, Sibe leaves a great legacy of mathematical passion and  
> rigour together with  a special humanity.
> He his deeply missed by all his friends and colleagues all over the  
> world.
> Ciao Sibe, wherever you are now.
> Luciano Stramaccia
>
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