From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9718 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Valeria de Paiva Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Fwd: Harold Simmons Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:31:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Valeria de Paiva NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539443422 23811 195.159.176.226 (13 Oct 2018 15:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: ptj@maths.cam.ac.uk Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Oct 13 17:10:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.55]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gBLYX-00063q-Dd for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:37397) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gBLZm-0004jZ-6J; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:11:34 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBLYj-0005pW-8o for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:10:29 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9718 Archived-At: Thank you for the very sad news, Peter. Harry will be much missed! A good friend, a no nonsense way of doing mathematics and a great joy in doing it. a sad day. best, Valeria On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:36 PM wrote: > I imagine there are many on the categories mailing list who would > want to know this sad news. I've known Harold ever since the first > meeting of the Peripatetic Seminar (May 1976): he was one of the select > few who attended both the first and the 100th meeting. > > Peter Johnstone > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andrea Schalk > Sent: 10 October 2018 16:22:22 > To: Nicola Gambino > Subject: Harold > > > Dear all, > > you have recently visited Harold, or expressed an interest in > visiting him. > > I'm afraid I have to tell you that he died this afternoon. I had no > idea that this might happen so soon. > > For the moment I don't know what else to say. > > Andrea > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]