From: "Niefield, Susan" <niefiels@union.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Barry Mitchell
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:30:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lOjpn-0008Qr-Kk@rr.mta.ca> (raw)
With great sadness, I learned today that my dissertation advisor Barry
Mitchell passed away in late January in a nursing home in Kingston, New
York. As part of the group at Columbia University in the sixties, Barry was
involved in the development of category theory and wrote one of the
earliest books on the subject. He was active through the seventies and
early eighties writing papers on abelian categories and homological
algebra. He was a great supervisor and mentor, and will be remembered for
his insightful and interesting approach to mathematics.
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2021-03-22 22:30 Niefield, Susan [this message]
2021-03-24 12:54 Steve Vickers
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