Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:38:01 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Gilberte Van den bossche Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:51:19 +0200 From: Francis Borceux Dear colleagues, I have the painful mission to announce that our colleague and friend Gilberte Van den bossche died saturday night, after a long illness. All those who visited Louvain-la-Neuve, all those who met her at various international meetings have always been impressed by her kindness and her highly developed sense of social contacts. She has produced in her scientific life very nice pieces of mathematics, on derived functors, locales, localizations, Gelfand rings and more recently, quantale theory. She was also an exceptional teacher, highly appreciated by her students. Her disparition is a great pain for all the members of the Louvain-la-Neuve category theory seminar, and a true scientific loss. Francis Borceux ============================================================================ Francis Borceux phone 32 10 473170 (phone, office) Departement de mathematiques 32 10 614205 (phone+fax, home) Universite Catholique de Louvain 32 10 472530 (fax, office) 2 chemin du Cyclotron 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve E-mail borceux@agel.ucl.ac.be Belgium Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:56:25 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Re: Gilberte Van den bossche Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:08:45 -0500 From: John Duskin I can't begin to say how sorry I am to hear of Gilberte's death. She was one of the most delightful people that I had the pleasure of knowing at Louvain la Neuve. I will never forget her answer to my question (on learning that she was native to the other side of the linguistic divide), "What was she doing in Louvain la Neuve?". With a twinkle in her eye, she replied," Je suis espionne!" We will all miss her, not only for her mathematics, but for who she was as a person. Please give my sympathy to her family and friends. Sincerely, Jack Duskin, SUNY Buffalo