From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10581 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Thomas Fox Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 18:02:04 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24469"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Sun Oct 10 02:02:32 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 1mZMIR-00069f-SB for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 02:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:59920) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1mZMDT-0000y9-2K; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:57:23 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZMGu-000052-HC for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:00:56 -0300 Accept-Language: fr-CA, en-US Content-Language: fr-CA Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10581 Archived-At: It is a great sorrow to announce that Thomas Fox died home October 2 with the loving care of his wife Giovanna Carnevale. Thom was a category theorist, a teacher and a singer. He got his Phd from McGill University under the supervision of Michael Barr= . He was a pionner in the application of categorical methods to deformation t= heory: https://www.math.mcgill.ca/fox/papers.html He taught at Dawson College and at McGill University, where he received the Principal's Prize for his teaching: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/thomas-fox-earns-mcgill-medal-for-lifelong-commi= tment-to-sharing-joy-of-math/ His teaching was very highly rated by his students at Dawson: https://space.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/explorations/article/interview_tom_fox https://www.facebook.com/groups/2331051666 He enjoyed singing in many languages including Italian, French and Russian: https://www.math.mcgill.ca/fox/ I remember well the reception that Thom and Giovanna held at their place at the occasion of a category theory Octoberfest: Michael Barr, Jon Beck, D= enis Higgs, Jim Lambek, Bill Lawvere, Michael Makkai, Barry Mitchell, Susan= Niefield, Robert Par=E9, Gonzalo Reyes, Bob Rosebrugh, Myles Tierney and D= on Van Osdol were there, to name a few. Thom will be missed. Andr=E9 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]