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What to say about Vic Snaith? Who can forget his British
enunciation, lit up by his unique witty delivery? In around 1991
there was a conference somewhere in Britain. Vic gleefully led a
group of us to a bookstore window to show off copies of his recently
published novel "The Yukiad." If you act quickly you can still pick
up a used copy in very good condition from ThriftBooksVintage! His
"Post-retirement" website contains more recent excursions into
fiction, as well as a profusion of new mathematics. Vic showed
amazing prescience by publishing a book <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>"Stable Homotopy around the
Arf-Kervaire Invariant" in 2009, just in time to serve as background
and foil for HHR. He highlighted the fact that he might be
discussing mythical beasts with frequent quotes from Lewis Carroll.
His peculiar constructions of K and MUP have now joined his
splitting theorem in the very foundations of our subject. You can
see how his love of contra dancing influenced his mathematics from
the illustration made by his wife Carolyn, reproduced (along with
photos of Vic with and without beard) on Doug's 2010 MFO account of
HHR. A great guy, I'll miss him.<br>
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- Haynes Miller<br></div>
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