From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9330 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Street Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Fred Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 00:42:06 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1EE29452-3443-447D-BCDE-0A76B4F0562D@dal.ca> Reply-To: Ross Street NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504795922 16768 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2017 14:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:52:02 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca list" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Sep 07 16:51:47 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dpy8Z-0001Gd-OI for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:50:35 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:37379) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dpy9H-0004Gi-TI; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:51:19 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpy7b-00081Z-1f for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:49:35 -0300 Thread-Topic: categories: Fred Thread-Index: AQHTJyh9gfIz9bhOUkqiG1McfjuiKqKoEnjSgACDdgA= In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <3441558408E4DE43B63C0EAC98964E9D@ausprd01.prod.outlook.com> Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9330 Archived-At: Preparing a stir fry for last Sunday's lunch is when I received Marta's mes= sage saying we had lost Fred. I realized that our family was introduced to = this wonderful style of cooking by Fred Linton in his big New Haven house. = I was on sabbatical 1976-7 at Wesleyan University in Middletown (CT) to wor= k with Fred. The year was a hard one for Fred but he was a great host. We r= ented a nice University-owned house in Middletown, with bushy slope one sid= e and a disused car park the other, so our two boys could toboggan or ride = their tag-sale-acquired tricycle, according to season. Our older boy starte= d school that year. Fred had found a microscope at a tag sale which is a gi= ft my boys often talk about. He also found books, fruits, vegies and other = things he rightly thought would interest us. One day he took me to a liquor store in New Haven where he knew they had Au= stralian beer. They had \Huge{cans} of Fosters. The shopkeeper, not knowing= at first my nationality, told me that, in Australia, they bought these by = the 6 pack and got through many of them at their barbies! Fosters was a Mel= bourne company, uncommon in Sydney in those days; I gave him the benefit of= the doubt. =20 I may have met Fred in November 1968 at a MidWest Category Seminar in Urban= a, Illinois; there were so many of the category theorists who had just been= names on papers to me before that. However, we certainly met at the Summer= of '69 Bowdoin College, Maine, gathering. Fred gave a series of lectures o= n enriching the theory of triples (monads), especially over bases that were= either closed or monoidal but not necessarily both. I had been thinking ab= out the closed monoidal case over the previous year so it was great to find= a mind who also found it worth doing that even more generally. =20 The MR review Fred wrote of my ``formal theory of monads'' paper was notice= d (before me I think) by our Head (Fred Chong) at the time. This was respon= sible in large part for my application for a full year's sabbatical at Midd= letown being smiled upon. Yes, Fred had a way with words! We category theorists have enjoyed Fred's company and discussions in many m= eetings around the world. We all will miss his valuable contributions. Ross= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]