[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-09 Thread L Spice
Mark Spezzano mark.spezzano at chariot.net.au writes: Does anyone know what Hom stands for? 'Hom' stands for 'homomorphism' --a way of changing (morphism) between two structures while keeping some information the same (homo-). Any algebra text will define morphisms aplenty --homomorphisms,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-06 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:16:03 -0800, Creighton Hogg wrote: 2010/2/2 Álvaro García Pérez agar...@babel.ls.fi.upm.es You may try Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists or Awodey's Category Theory, whose style is rather introductory. Both of them (I think) have a chapter about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-06 Thread briand
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:38:08 +0900 Benjamin L. Russell dekudekup...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:16:03 -0800, Creighton Hogg wrote: 2010/2/2 Álvaro García Pérez agar...@babel.ls.fi.upm.es You may try Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists or Awodey's

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-02 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Mark Spezzano mark.spezzano at chariot.net.au writes: Maybe there are books on Discrete maths or Algebra or Set Theory that deal more with Hom Sets and Hom Functions? Googling haskell category theory I got: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory

[Haskell-cafe] Re: category theory tutorial pdfs .....

2008-08-01 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:52:41 -0500, Galchin, Vasili [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Prof. Harold Simmons' tutorial IMO are like a Russian matroshka doll ... first layer is for newbie ... inner layers require more sophistication. IMO a very subtle writer ... I have every book imaginable on cat

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category theory monad ---- Haskell monad

2005-08-23 Thread Jeremy Gibbons
On 14/08/05, Carl Marks id2359 at yahoo.com wrote: Is there any text/article which makes precise/rigorous/explicit the connection between the category theoretic definition of monad with the haskell implementation? I did try to do this in my (rejected) paper A monadic interpretation of tactics

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category theory monad ---- Haskell monad

2005-08-22 Thread Chung-chieh Shan
Michael Vanier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: Basically, though, the Haskell implementation _is_ the category theoretic definition of monad, with bind/return used instead of (f)map/join/return as described below. Doesn't the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Category theory monad ---- Haskell monad

2005-08-22 Thread Cale Gibbard
On 22/08/05, Chung-chieh Shan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Vanier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: Basically, though, the Haskell implementation _is_ the category theoretic definition of monad, with bind/return used instead of

Re: category theory

1998-10-16 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 15-Oct-1998, Hans Aberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:25 +1000 98/10/15, David Glen JEFFERY wrote: Does something like this exist? FWIW, I'm using Hugs 1.4 I gather that "FWIW" is yet another SSMA; what does it mean? For What It's Worth. Okay... I'll bite. What's SSMA? Anyhow, for

Re: category theory

1998-10-16 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Alan Wood: ... On another point ... I assume *someone* out there must have re-written the ML code from Rydeheard and Burstall's 'Computational Category Theroy' in Haskell - even if only partially. If you have, I'd welcome a copy of the code. Alan -- Dr A.M. Wood

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Frank Christoph
Having only recently learned to use Monads and appreciate their utility, I am encountering new category-theoretic material in reading about arrows in Jansson and Jeuring's Polytypic Compact Printing and Parsing paper. It strikes me that I should just get the basics under my belt rather than

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 14-Oct-1998, S. Alexander Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having only recently learned to use Monads and appreciate their utility, I am encountering new category-theoretic material in reading about arrows in Jansson and Jeuring's Polytypic Compact Printing and Parsing paper. It

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Torsten Grust
On October 14 (16:33 -0400), S. Alexander Jacobson wrote with possible deletions: | Having only recently learned to use Monads and appreciate their | utility, I am encountering new category-theoretic material in reading | about arrows in Jansson and Jeuring's Polytypic Compact Printing and |

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Hans Aberg
At 17:25 +1000 98/10/15, David Glen JEFFERY wrote: Does something like this exist? FWIW, I'm using Hugs 1.4 I gather that "FWIW" is yet another SSMA; what does it mean? Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Home Page:

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Hans Aberg
At 18:27 +0900 98/10/15, Frank Christoph wrote: I encourage you to acquire some familiarity with a related field first, e.g., universal algebra, topology or even type theory or logic, since category theory is very abstract stuff ("abstract nonsense" is a commonly cited description; of course,

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Hans Aberg
On 15-Oct-1998, Hans Aberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that "FWIW" is yet another SSMA; what does it mean? At 01:22 +1000 98/10/16, David Glen JEFFERY wrote: For What It's Worth. Okay... I'll bite. What's SSMA? some such meaningless acronym Hans Aberg *

Re: category theory

1998-10-15 Thread Alan Wood
Re: category theory --- S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: | What is a good place to start learning the | basics of category theory, monads, and algebra (as in algebraic types not | high school math) for use in a programming context? Books? Papers? | Websites? I've found most attractive account