From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10741 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Fiore Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Pieter Hofstra Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:57:33 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Thomas Fiore 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="6070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: categories net Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Wed May 11 18:35:20 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nopJ1-0001IK-Aj for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 18:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:59502) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1nopHu-0007Zn-A3; Wed, 11 May 2022 13:34:10 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1nopHa-0003qr-AD for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Wed, 11 May 2022 13:33:50 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10741 Archived-At: Dear Friends and Colleagues, I send my condolences to all of Pieter's family, friends, and colleagues. The news of his passing last week deeply affected me. Pieter and I were postdocs around the same time, meeting occasionally at conferences, such as Octoberfest and CTs. I felt a bond with him, being from the same generation, and I think anyone who knew him felt a bond because of his personality. He had such a beaming smile and patient, friendly, kind way of explaining and discussing. The way he discussed mathematics was full of youth. And so was he. I was so shocked and sad to read the news of his passing. I just can't grasp it. Sincerely, Tom Fiore [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]