From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10537 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timothy Porter Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_categories=3A_Nico_Pumpl=C3=BCn?= Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:03:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Timothy Porter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33138"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: Walter P Tholen Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Mon Jul 26 17:16:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m82Km-0008OE-1e for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:16:00 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:39476) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1m82JA-00048c-OG; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:14:20 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1m82II-0005cm-5H for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:13:26 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10537 Archived-At: Thanks Walter, I have good memories of Nico from when I used to visit Hagen for collaboration with Heiner Kamps who was also there. On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 22:11, Walter P Tholen wrote: > > Many readers of this list will remember Dieter (=E2=80=9ENico=E2=80=9C) P= umpl=C3=BCn. He passed > away yesterday (July 20, 2021) at the age of 88. > > Nico received his doctoral degree in 1960 at the Westf=C3=A4lische > Wilhelms-Universit=C3=A4t in M=C3=BCnster, Germany, with a thesis in alge= braic number > theory, written under the direction of Hans Petersson. He turned his > attention to category theory during a stay in the U.S. and was an early > promoter of the theory in Germany in the 1960s. Later on, he became > particularly interested in the applications of category theory to analysi= s, > as evidenced by his extensive collaborative work with Helmut R=C3=B6hrl a= nd > Diethard Pallaschke. Among many others, he also collaborated with his > friend Heinrich Kleisli. > > Nico served his institutions in various important administrative > positions, first at the WWU and then at Fernuniversit=C3=A4t in Hagen, a= newly > founded university specializing in distance education, where in 1975 he h= ad > assumed the inaugural professorial position in mathematics. He was > instrumental in establishing the mathematics curriculum at Fernuniversit= =C3=A4t, > and his enthusiasm for research and the education of his graduate student= s > were extraordinary and very inspiring. > > Nico very much mourned the death of his wife Hannelore a few years ago. > His two daughters, Susanne and Constanze, are both professional > mathematicians, and there is a prospect that some of his four grandsons > will follow a similar career path. > > I will miss a teacher, mentor and life-long friend. > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]