[FRIAM] Category theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Russell Standish r.standish at unsw.edu.au
Fri Feb 9 11:08:44 EST 2007


On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:48:08PM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
> We've knocked around the term Category Theory a bit lately, so I  
> started looking into it a bit.  This seems to be a reasonable  
> starting place:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory
> 
> Has anyone used this in complexity science work?  Or semantic web  
> work?  Or anything else?  :)
> 
> I know Amazon turns up Russell Standish's book first in a search for  
> category theory!
> 
>      -- Owen
> 
> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
> "You can do Anything, but not Everything!"
> 

What?

Some say law is an ass. Does this mean Amazon search is an ass? I
mention category theory only briefly as a more general theory than set
theory, but my work is entirely based on set theory. It would not be
much help to anyone wanting to understand CT.

Cheers

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