Re: Phil Scott

["Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>]

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Once Phil invited me while I was visiting Montreal to his seminar in 
Ottawa to talk on MV-algebras, and I remember having on my short visit a 
long and interesting discussion on dinatural transformation, where I 
could appreciate the deepness of his mathematical thinking. Outside 
mathematics he made me pass a wonderful stay in Ottawa. I fully agree 
with Peter Hines who wrote to this thread

"I and many others will remember him as one of the genuinely nicest 
people I have ever known."

Eduardo Dubuc



On 20/12/23 4:49 PM, Joyal, André wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> To Rick Blute, Robin Cockett and Simon Henry
> 
> I am very sad to learn that Phil has left us for another world.
> I knew him from the time he was studying with Jim Lambek, about 50 years 
> ago.
> I have a good memory of the lively discussions we had in a café in the
> Mile-End near McGill. He was always eager to discuss new ideas and
> he had an apparent limitless thirst for mathematics.
> His book with Lambek, "Introduction Higher Categorical Logic" is a landmark.
> He created the school of category theory in Ottawa.
> 
> I owe him a personal debt: a few years ago, he took the initiative of 
> presenting
> my case to the Jeffery-Willams prize of the CMS, which I won in 2022!
> Thank you Phil!
> 
> I wish there is a paradise for mathematicians, so they can continue 
> their research.
> Phil was a good angel and we need help.
> 
> André Joyal
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *De :* Jason Parker <jasonparker300@gmail.com>
> *Envoyé :* 20 décembre 2023 12:17
> *À :* Richard Blute <rblute@uottawa.ca>
> *Cc :* Categories mailing list <categories@mq.edu.au>
> *Objet :* Re: Phil Scott
> Dear all,
> 
> I am very saddened to hear of Phil's passing. Phil was one of my PhD 
> advisors at the University of Ottawa from 2015-2020 (along with Pieter 
> Hofstra, who also sadly passed away in 2022). He was an extremely kind 
> and supportive mentor in mathematics and in life. I also knew him to be 
> a very caring and conscientious teacher, from when I served as a 
> teaching assistant for his discrete mathematics course (on more than one 
> occasion), and from when I took a graduate course with him on 
> categorical logic.
> 
> I last saw him in person when I had a post-PhD-defense celebratory 
> dinner at the Green Door restaurant in Ottawa (one of his favourites!), 
> and in recent years I had seen him at various online seminars and 
> conferences. I last spoke to him over e-mail in October, not knowing 
> that that would be the last time we would speak.
> 
> May he rest in peace.
> 
> -Jason Parker
> 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 6:36 AM Richard Blute <rblute@uottawa.ca 
> <mailto:rblute@uottawa.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     It is with great sadness that we convey the news to the category
>     theory community that our good friend and colleague Phil Scott
>     passed away this morning (18^th  December, 2023) after a long battle
>     with cancer. ____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Phil’s many contributions to category theory are well known. Phil
>     and Jim Lambek essentially invented the field of categorical proof
>     theory with a series of papers that culminated in the book
>     “Introduction To Higher-Order Categorical Logic”, which is still the
>     standard text on the subject. Phil’s research went well beyond these
>     initial works: he made major contributions to theoretical computer
>     science, linear logic, inverse semigroup theory and recursion
>     theory.____
> 
>     ____
> 
>     Those of us who knew him personally will always think of him as a
>     mentor, a friend and a genuinely kind soul.____
> 
>     ____
> 
>     Rick Blute____
> 
>     Robin Cockett____
> 
>     Simon Henry____
> 
>     __ __
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