From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10584 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Pitts Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Thomas Fox Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:15:44 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Andrew Pitts 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="31588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Tue Oct 12 16:25:55 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 1maIj5-00082L-Jj for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:25:55 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:60204) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1maIiP-0000Vd-Km; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:25:13 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1maIhs-0007Ez-Ux for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:24:40 -0300 Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10584 Archived-At: I was very saddened to hear this news. My wife Susan and I have very fond memories of Fox (as he was known to us) and Giovanna ??? they were hugely hospitable to us when we arrived in Montreal (and in particular in their neighbourhood) in the Fall of 1983 when I was a young post-doc visiting McGill. Andy Pitts > On 9 Oct 2021, at 19:02, 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?? ---1530486996-1413931678-1634048602=:27772-- [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]