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From: Michael Healy <mjhealy@unm.edu>
To: "categories@mta.ca" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: categories: Bill Lawvere
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:56:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1pUFt0-0006fl-QH@rr.mta.ca> (raw)

Dear colleagues,

I am deeply affected by Bill Lawvere's departure. I met him rather late, at  the Category Theory conference at UBC in 1997. I knew very little, not having been schooled in that area of mathematics. So I introduced myself to two new people whose works I had begun reading---Bill, and also Saunders Mac Lane. They were very welcoming to a newcomer. In fact, it felt like Bill was taking a new enthusiast under his wing, so to speak. He spent time with me during breaks and I will forever benefit from his time there and at later  conferences and in correspondence, and from the contributions he made to mathematics.

Very sincerely,
Mike Healy



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2023-02-20  1:56 Michael Healy [this message]
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2023-02-08 15:39 Anders Kock
2023-02-02  9:12 Ross Street
2023-01-30  9:43 Jirí Adámek
2023-01-26 13:58 Steve Awodey

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