From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9329 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pare =0A= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Fred Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:51:44 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1EE29452-3443-447D-BCDE-0A76B4F0562D@dal.ca> Reply-To: Robert Pare =0A= NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504717995 1911 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2017 17:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:13:15 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Sep 06 19:13:05 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 1dpdsp-00083U-5W for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:58478) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dpdtZ-0006bh-TM; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:13:45 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpdrs-000362-Vy for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:12:01 -0300 Thread-Topic: Fred Thread-Index: AQHTJyh9gfIz9bhOUkqiG1McfjuiKqKoEnjS In-Reply-To: <1EE29452-3443-447D-BCDE-0A76B4F0562D@dal.ca> Accept-Language: en-CA, en-US Content-Language: en-CA Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9329 Archived-At: =0A= Fred was a great guy and I liked him. His love of language was manifest=0A= in his writing as well as in his oral communication. It was from his papers= that I=0A= learned the words =93behoove=94 and =93antepenultimate=94. In one paper he = explained,=0A= in a precise and understandable way, the theory of triples (aka monads), th= eir=0A= algebras and how they relate to adjoints, =85 all in a single sentence!=0A= =0A= I first met him when I was a graduate student at McGill in 1968. He was sle= eping=0A= on the couch in the lounge with a sign on his chest saying =93Wake me at 2:= 30=94.=0A= Someone asked, =93Who=92s this?=94. The reply: =93The colloquium speaker.= =94 He spoke=0A= (at 2:35) on enriched theories and algebras. One thing he said has stuck wi= th me.=0A= The base category was a non-symmetric monoidal category and the algebras we= re=0A= contravariant functors into it (if my memory serves me correctly). He said = there=0A= may come a time when we have to consider covariant functors as contravarian= t=0A= ones on the opposite category.=0A= =0A= He was a true original and a great loss to our community.=0A= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]