From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9328 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wick-Pelletier@mlist.mta.ca, Joan Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Fred Linton Obituary Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:40:43 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Wick-Pelletier@mlist.mta.ca, Joan NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504709835 16661 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2017 14:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:57:15 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Sep 06 16:57:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpblD-0003Xb-2v for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:56:59 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:58404) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dpbmM-0004yG-6a; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:58:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpbkf-0002X8-5K for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:56:25 -0300 Accept-Language: en-CA, en-US Content-Language: en-CA Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9328 Archived-At: Dear all, I am attaching an obituary that Barbara Mikolajewska (Linton) wrote. It cam= e to me via Carol Wood, Fred's long-time colleague at Wesleyan. Like those who have already expressed their thoughts, I will miss Fred. He = was my unofficial thesis advisor, generous with ideas, guidance, encouragem= ent, and friendship. Joan Fred E.J. Linton (1938-1917) Fred Ernest Julius Linton passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 2, = 2017 at the Connecticut Hospice with his wife by his side. He was the belov= ed husband of 26 years to Barbara Mikolajewska, whom he met in Poland. Fred= was born in Italy on April 8, 1938 and was the only son of Jewish parents = who were escaping from Hitler's Germany to the United States of America. Be= fore they got visas for the USA they spend few months in Ecuador. When they= came to the USA, they lived in New York City. Fred studied mathematics at = Yale and got his Ph.D. from Columbia University. After graduation he accept= ed a position at Wesleyan University as a professor of mathematics, where h= e spent his entire career. He worked on category theory and was a highly-re= spected mathematician who participated in numerous scientific conferences a= nd discussions. Fred enjoyed international folk dancing, which he did at Yale and at Columb= ia. After he came to Wesleyan, he helped start the folk-dance group `Ajde'= in New Haven, which studied and performed Eastern European folk dances and= music Many years later, the group began holding reunions at a country hous= e in Vermont, where they rent the local town hall for more dancing. Fred had a very active and curious mind, and after retirement he was still = busy solving mathematical and computer science puzzles. Numbers never left = his mind. He loved classical music and traveling, which he did for vacatio= ns as well as on several sabbaticals from Wesleyan. He designed covers and= formats for self-published books that he produced together with his wife B= arbara. His interests extended to Indian literature and philosophy, and he= wrote and gave talks on the logic of Buddhism. Together with Barbara, the= ir website, The Lintons' Video Press, published twelve volumes of the Polis= h translation of the Sanskrit epic poem, the Mahabharata. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]