Sad news — Erik Palmgren

[Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine]

Dear colleagues,

Some very sad news — Erik Palmgren passed away unexpectedly this week at his home in Stockholm, after a short period of bad health.

Besides being insightful and influential in his own work, mostly on constructive mathematics and related topics in logic, Erik was also a generous and sensitive mentor to many students and younger colleagues, first in Uppsala and then in Stockholm.  He will be deeply missed.

Personal website: http://staff.math.su.se/palmgren/

For any academic business regarding Erik, please contact either me <p.l.lu...@math.su.se> or Jonas Bergström <jon...@math.su.se> (head of the Stockholm University mathematics division).

Sadly,

–Peter.

[Chaitanya LS]

Dear all,

This is very sad news indeed.

My memory of Erik is as a quiet but thoughtful and warm person, candid and principled, and vastly knowledgeable.

Erik was my entry-point into the world of type theory, when, in 2016, he let me, then an impressionable masters student, into his cavernous setoid libraries, where I spent six happy months messing with E-categories---'"Erik"-categories'---and ECwAs, lost in the heady lure of checking coherences in a proof assistant.

-Chaitanya.

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