From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10845 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Gilmour Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Bernhard Banaschewski Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 12:20:13 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Christopher Gilmour Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5545"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Thu Nov 03 15:32:57 2022 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 1oqbH6-0001AG-2K for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:32:56 +0100 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:34680) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1oqbGf-00049P-Mg; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:32:29 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqbFv-0006Qj-Vm for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:31:43 -0300 Accept-Language: en-ZA, en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10845 Archived-At: Dear Editor Professor Bernhard Banaschewski died on Monday 1 November. His main fields= of interest were Algebra, Topology and Category Theory. His 90th birthday = was celebrated in March 2016 at ATC 2016: Symposium on Algebra, Topology a= nd Category Theory held at UCT, the University of Cape Town. Covid prevente= d him attending further meetings (he was not a friend of computers) so to c= elebrate his 95th birthday, his circle of mathematics' friends compiled mes= sages to him which were printed out and then relayed by hand to his apartme= nt in Hamilton, Ontario. Bernhard was awarded Honorary Doctorates both by UCT in 2000 and by McMast= er University in 2017 (see this somewhat informal article in the Hamilton S= pectator announcing the latter http://www.thespec.com/news-story/7370564-mahoney-do-the-math-dr-banaschews= ki-adds-another-degree/ ) Bernhard had over 220 publications cited in MathSciNet. His talks were exem= plary and appreciated by a much wider audience than the specialists in the = topics. All of us - students and colleagues - found him an inspiration and many of = us owe much to the generous sharing of his research and, in the case of st= udents, mentorship. He will be very much missed. Christopher Gilmour ___________________________ Associate Professor Emeritus Christopher Gilmour Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics University of Cape Town Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701 Tel: + (021) 650 3877 Fax: + (021) 650 2334 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]