Welcome, John. I hope you can visit Santa Fe and give us a rich briefing on category theory.
All the best, Tom Johnson On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:11 PM, John F. Kennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > My name is John Kennison and I am glad to be welcomed to the Friam group. I > am a retired Math professor and have been a friend and colleague of Nick > Thompson's for many years. My field is category theory and I am interested > in all kinds of applications of categories to other areas of math, including > dynamical systems. I have been reading Rosen's "Life Itself" which seems > half-baked, pretentious and badly written, but which also seems to be asking > some deep and important questions. So I enjoy trying to puzzle my way > through it. > > I like listening to discussions about the nature of math. While I have > practical experience as a mathematician and am not afraid to voice my > opinions, I have done almost no philosophical reading on this subject. > > ---John > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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