Sibe Mardesic

Sibe Mardesic

[l.stramaccia]

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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Re: Sibe Mardesic

[Marco Grandis]

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
>
> [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]



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