[Apologies if you receive this as a duplicate] Dear All, Very sad news. Fred was a gentle person with an inexhaustible curiosity Always ready for a discussion with good spirit. He will be remembered for the connection between algebraic theories and monads. I will miss him. André J. ________________________________________ From: Marta Bunge [martabunge@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2017 8:56 PM To: categories@mta.ca Subject: categories: Fred Linton [Note from moderator: the message below from Barbara Mikolajewska was forwarded by Marta Bunge] Very sad news.=C2=A0 __________ From: Fred E.J. Linton <fejlinton@usa.net> Sent: September 2, 2017 8:32:17 PM To: Marta Bunge Subject: Re: To Fred and Barbara =C2=A0 Dear Marta, I have to inform you with great sadness that Fred died today at 5:47 a.m. There were no cure for his illness in the stage when it starts to manifest its devastating symptoms. Hospice at least gave him some comfort and peace in this last moments. I discovered it is really very humanitarian institution. Barbara [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ] [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]