From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10582 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Coecke Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Thomas Fox Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:51:01 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Bob Coecke Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.21\)) 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="17691"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Tue Oct 12 01:47:39 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 1ma518-0004Ri-Og for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:47:38 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:60092) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ma4w9-0004zD-Hc; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:42:29 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma4zk-0004nH-5m for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:46:12 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10582 Archived-At: I don=E2=80=99t think I ever met Tom Fox, but I do remember Dusko = Pavlovic telling me in 2005 about Tom=E2=80=99s phd work, and that work = ended up being vital for the development of categorical quantum = mechanics, ZX-calculus, DisCoCat, QNLP, and all the other stuff that has = `spiders=E2=80=99. Thank you Thomas. > On 9 Oct 2021, at 19:02, Joyal, Andr=C3=A9 = wrote: >=20 > It is a great sorrow to announce that Thomas Fox died home October 2 > with the loving care of his wife Giovanna Carnevale. >=20 > Thom was a category theorist, a teacher and a singer. >=20 > 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 theory: >=20 > https://www.math.mcgill.ca/fox/papers.html >=20 > He taught at Dawson College and at McGill University, where he = received > the Principal's Prize for his teaching: >=20 > = https://reporter.mcgill.ca/thomas-fox-earns-mcgill-medal-for-lifelong-comm= itment-to-sharing-joy-of-math/ >=20 > His teaching was very highly rated by his students at Dawson: >=20 > = https://space.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/explorations/article/interview_tom_fox >=20 > https://www.facebook.com/groups/2331051666 >=20 >=20 > He enjoyed singing in many languages including Italian, French and = Russian: >=20 > https://www.math.mcgill.ca/fox/ >=20 > 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, Denis Higgs, Jim Lambek, Bill Lawvere, Michael Makkai, Barry = Mitchell, Susan Niefield, Robert Par=C3=A9, Gonzalo Reyes, Bob = Rosebrugh, Myles Tierney and Don Van Osdol were there, to name a few. >=20 > Thom will be missed. >=20 > Andr=C3=A9 >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]