From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9725 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pedro Resende Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Fwd: Harold Simmons Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:12:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Pedro Resende NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539972407 1000 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2018 18:06:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:06:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Oct 19 20:06:43 2018 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 1gDZAZ-00009x-0v for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:06:43 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:56034) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gDZBl-0002cQ-Tk; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:07:57 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDZAj-00071C-GH for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:06:53 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9725 Archived-At: I first met Harold Simmons at a PSSL in Cambridge (1999?) where my = accommodation was a nice bed&breakfast where Peter Johnstone had placed = both him and me. We spent the breakfasts talking about things that (of = course) included frames and quantales, along with funny anecdotes about = other =E2=80=98framers=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98quantalers=E2=80=99. Since = then I keep an indelible memory of a sharp, very kind and good humoured = man. Pedro > On Oct 11, 2018, at 9:10 PM, ptj@maths.cam.ac.uk wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > Peter Johnstone >=20 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andrea Schalk > Sent: 10 October 2018 16:22:22 > To: Nicola Gambino > Subject: Harold >=20 >=20 > Dear all, >=20 > you have recently visited Harold, or expressed an interest in > visiting him. >=20 > I'm afraid I have to tell you that he died this afternoon. I had no > idea that this might happen so soon. >=20 > For the moment I don't know what else to say. >=20 > Andrea >=20 >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]