Re: [HoTT] Peter Aczel

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I was very saddened to read the news of Peter Aczel's death. 

I greatly admired his work, not only for its content but also for its 
clarity. His promotion of informal rigorous reasoning in type theory that 
Andrej Bauer mentioned in another post is an example. He also had very nice 
handwriting! -- I found this out
when he very generously shared some of his unpublished work with me when I 
was a graduate student in the late 70s and early 80s. (He later examined my 
PhD thesis.)

RIP, Peter.

Andrew M. Pitts
Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge 
William Gates Building 
15 JJ Thomson Ave
Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK

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