Dear Bill,

  I jsut read these posts to learn more  :-\

> Granted. "constructive part" was meant to soften my claim.
Sure, I wanted just to point out that 'constructive' (in a topos valid sense)
is not the same as constructable (in an implementation sense in a CAS).

> Yes, elementary topos. I am interested only in the axioms which are
> intended to capture set theory "algebraically". I am interested in
> topos as a foundation in the sense of set theory.

Yes, I see that too, but it might not be sufficient. The theory of computability
actually needs topology, as you use `continuous'(!) functions to define
abstractly what is computable (loosely). So you need a topology on the topos
too, which renders it to be a Grothendieck topos in general.
   For my current work I would be greatly interested in some
computation in a CAS
about topos theory. (Actually currently in a 2-categorical sense,
which startes to get
rather unhandy with paper ans pencil (even to draw the diagrams
required)). My problem
is that some spaces may not have points, so its not so easy to write
down sensible
equational formulae and let them check. That was teh back ground reason for my
comment.

> http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1284
>
> Relative Frobenius algebras are groupoids
> Chris Heunen, Ivan Contreras, Alberto S. Cattaneo
> (Submitted on 6 Dec 2011)

  I saw Chris giving a talk about this (I guess, as I have not yet
read the paper) in Nijmegen
on the QLP2011. Indeed I have to read it asap. They were searching for
Frobenius algebra
structures which are suitable to be defined on an infinite dimensional
(Hilbert) space.
  If you have questions about this, let me know this, but possibly in
a private mail, as this is
and of-list-topic.

Cheers
BF.

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