From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10583 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ross Street Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Thomas Fox Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:21:43 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Ross Street Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19249"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca list" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Tue Oct 12 02:49:40 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 1ma5zA-0004nM-O8 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:49:40 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:60124) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ma5uJ-0006pk-Go; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:44:39 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1ma5xf-0004yD-41 for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:48:07 -0300 Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10583 Archived-At: This is very sad news, Andr\'e. Tom and Giovanna invited me to dinner a number of times during my visits to Montr\'eal. The first time I remember Giovanna opening the door, releasing the cooking aroma. After the kisses to three cheeks, I said ``Buon profumo!''. Giovanna said ``Oh, you speak Italian.'' After my denial, she responded ``Anyone who recognises buon profumo speaks Italian''. A lovely welcome to a wonderful evening and Italian meal. Another of Tom's talents was his cooking. My deep condolences to Giovanna and our community. Ross > On 10 Oct 2021, at 5:02 am, Joyal, Andr? wrote: > > 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 theory: > > 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-commitment-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, Denis Higgs, Jim Lambek, Bill Lawvere, Michael Makkai, Barry Mitchell, Susan Niefield, Robert Par?, Gonzalo Reyes, Bob Rosebrugh, Myles Tierney and Don Van Osdol were there, to name a few. > > Thom will be missed. > > Andr? > ---1530486996-1564830125-1633999511=:19019-- [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]