Hi John, welcome to the warm pile of puppies!
Just curious: is there a book or paper(s) you'd recommend for folks
interested in category theory? Maybe two, considering the FRIAM
audience: one for folks with a good undergrad math background, and one
for generalists?
I ask because several conversations here have mentioned it and I've
yet to hear a conversation that could not have simply used basic
"modern algebraic" notions of sets and operations on them: groups,
rings, fields, integer domains, and so on.
-- Owen
On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:11 PM, John F. Kennison 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
>
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