From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9720 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas Streicher Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Fwd: Harold Simmons Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 12:48:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Thomas Streicher NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539523567 3087 195.159.176.226 (14 Oct 2018 13:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 13:26:07 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Oct 14 15:26:03 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 1gBgPC-0000c4-IT for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:26:02 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:37571) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gBgRD-0001EZ-Qg; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:28:07 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBgQA-00046h-7a for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:27:02 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9720 Archived-At: 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 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]