As I continue to struggle, page by page, with Rosen, I begin to realize
that much of his LINGO is category theory LINGO.
As I read Daniels and Riopella below, I wonder if much of THEIR lingo isnt
category theory lingo.
So, I am beginning to wonder, is it possible that Category Theory is one
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
So, I am beginning to wonder, is it possible that Category Theory is one of
those intellectual developments that has been roundly rejected by the
mainstream, but whose language has crept into the mainstream to a very
great degree?
Type systems of programming
Tonight's Frito pie session has an added twist: Chris Feola, named one
of the 50 most influential people in new media by Online Journalism
Review, will join us for a casual evening discussion of his work with
unstructured data in journalism and other inquiries. He will describe
the
Most of the present generation of mathematicians were brought up using
sets, which are more than adequate for most of maths. Category theory
in essence is a generalised notion of sets. Maybe the next generation
of mathematicians will be more comfortable with category theory?
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