A few years ago, one of the mailing lists advertised a foundations talk he was to give at the Harvard math department. I flew out to Boston and snuck in, figuring the Harvard people would assume I was MIT and conversely. I was found-out, though, as people were filing out after his talk; of course everyone knows everyone else.

I knew his work from my days as a geometer. It was the sort of thing you see in grad school and it impresses its beauty upon you forever. I came out because I'd heard this and that about HoTT and it seemed like a good opportunity to peek into that world. He seemed surprised that someone not in-the-know would make the trip. We talked for a bit. He was generous with his time in a way that struck me as incredibly humble. To the extent that mathematicians have fans, he was good to his.


On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Gershom B <gers...@gmail.com> wrote:
The NY Category Theory Seminar devoted tonight's session to the
commemoration of Vladimir. We had prior conducted a multi-year group
read of the HoTT book. We had a little discussion of motivic homotopy
theory and the Bloch–Kato conjecture, though none of us are terribly
familiar with the topic. We also read aloud some of the tributes to
him written by others, and concluded with a mathematical discussion of
the initiality conjecture and B- and C-systems.

We took the photo attached (which is rather blurry, due to being taken
by a camera with a timer) at the end. Behind us on the right is the
definition of a C-system, and on the left is the univalence axiom.

HIs contributions were immense, his vision was far-reaching, and the
impact of his work will continue to unfold in years to come.

—Gershom

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