August 4 is Saunders Mac Lane's one hundredth birthday. At a mathematical dinner party hosted by Don Schack, the long-time friends Jack Duskin, Peter and Pam Freyd, Bill and Fatima Lawvere, Mohan Ramachandran, Steve Schanuel, Scott Williams, as well as other guests toasted Saunders and the century of mathematical progress in which he played such an important role as leader and as our friend. To Saunders! [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
Thanks, Bill, for calling this to my attention. I would have been sorry to have missed noticing it! Best regards from the European Logic Colloquium in Sofia, Bulgaria, where today (August 4) we appropriately had a special session and several contributed talks on category theory in logic. Steve Awodey On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:08 AM, F William Lawvere wrote:
August 4 is Saunders Mac Lane's one hundredth birthday.
At a mathematical dinner party hosted by Don Schack, the long-time friends Jack Duskin, Peter and Pam Freyd, Bill and Fatima Lawvere, Mohan Ramachandran, Steve Schanuel, Scott Williams, as well as other guests toasted Saunders and the century of mathematical progress in which he played such an important role as leader and as our friend.
To Saunders!
[For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
[For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
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Steve Awodey