Dear colleagues, You can find in the following site http://www.math.mcgill.ca/bunge/abstracts.ps the abstracts of the Oberwolfach Meeting on Descent from 1995. Look in particular at the abstract for Jack Duskin's lecture on "Triples and Descent". In it, Jack gives as a corollary to the main theorem what he calls "the Benabou-Roubaud-Beck theorem". Jack mentions that the theorems exposed in that lecture were part of a thesis project of his student M. Alsani. There seems to be a precedent in print then in adding Beck's name to this theorem, unlike what I previously thought. Other authors (like Claudio Hermida) refer to it as "the Beck-Benabou-Roubaud theorem". This, added to the recollections by Ross Street and Bill Lawvere, seem to contradict my previous contention (from lack of evidence) that the theorem is exclusively due to Benabou and Roubaud. It seems now clear that Jon Beck must have had it (independently) too, which of course is not at all surprising. With best wishes, Marta ************************************************ Marta Bunge Professor Emerita Dept of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University 805 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6 Office: (514) 398-3810 Home: (514) 935-3618 marta.bunge@mcgill.ca http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~bunge/ ************************************************ I found the abstract of Jack Duskin's lecture at the Oberwolfach meeting on Descent, 1995. ************************************************ Marta Bunge Professor Emerita Dept of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University 805 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6 Office: (514) 398-3810 Home: (514) 935-3618 marta.bunge@mcgill.ca http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~bunge/ ************************************************ _________________________________________________________________ Gear up with the exclusive HALO 3 theme back for Windows Live Messenger. http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger/halo3.aspx