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From: Thomas Streicher <streicher@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Harold Simmons
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 12:48:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1gBgQA-00046h-7a@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gBLYj-0005pW-8o@mlist.mta.ca>

Harold Simmons was around at most of the PSSLs I started to attend in
the second half of the 80s. As a middle European person I was deeply
impressed by his sense of humour and having a sarcastic attitude to
everything without being cynical.
Only later I learned that he set some trends like provability logic or
locale theory well before my time. One would have heard this from him
directly. I think he was a paradigm in not following fashions and
sticking to his interests. How different from what is predominant nowadays.

It's sad that one can't meet him again (and go for a `snifter' as he
would have put it).

Thomas


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-14 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-11 20:10 ptj
2018-10-13 13:31 ` Valeria de Paiva
2018-10-14 10:48   ` Thomas Streicher [this message]
2018-10-15 17:27 ` Steve Vickers
2018-10-19 13:12 ` Fwd: " Pedro Resende

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