On 07 Nov 2008, at 15:57, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
Bruno Marchal in an older post wrote:
Also,
can you elaborate a bit more on the motivation behind category
theory?
Why
was it invented, and what problems does it solve? What's the
relationship
between category theory and the idea that
Title: Re: Some books on category and topos
theory
At 12:24 -0700 9/07/2002, Tim May wrote:
Whether knots are the key to physics, I
can't say. Certainly there are suggestive notions that particles might
be some kind of knots in spacetime (of some
dimensionality)...
Interesting! Chromosomes
Title: Re: Some books on category and topos theory
Tim May wrote:
Whether knots are the key to physics, I can't say. [...]
Knots are the key to (quantum) entanglement.
s.
Wei Dai asks some question to Tim May which I would like to comment
taking into account some other posts.
Wei Dai:
Suppose I had the time for only one book, which would you recommend?
I think you (Wei) decide to look for the book by Lawvere. Good choice
but you should know it is just an
At 9:24 -0700 9/07/2002, Tim May wrote:
Reading styles differ, but I have come to favor the hawk spiral. I
see hawks spiralling in the thermals near my house, and this is how
I like to learn. I read something from one book, think, read from
another, think, try to compare what the authors are
On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Me too. Now, I feel almost like you about ... knot theory.
And this fit well with your cat-enthusiasm, for knot theory is
a reservoir of beautiful and TOE-relevant categories
(the monoidal one). I've just
ordered Yetter's book:
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