rather than Aristotle's.
From: Bernard Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu
Subject: [peirce-l] Re: Fw: What is Category Theory?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:41:50 +0200
Joseph Ransdell a crit :
Does
Joe, list,
The popular discussions of category theory on the Internet haven't helped me
very much. Apparently the basic explanational problem is that it's based on
higher math, so it's just hard to explain.
I once asked a singularity theorist, okay, it's about categories, so what are
the
See:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
Though this may be more useful:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Category.html
I asked at a conference recently why category theory was considered so
important and the claim was made that it is important because it is our
most advanced
As far as i know, informally speaking category theory studies mappings
(i.e. morphisms) between two sets of objects belonging to the same
category. for example between two groups, rings, vector spaces,
topological spaces, etc. in some sense, it can be thought of as an
abstraction of already
