From: Topos8@aol.com
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Who invented n-categories?
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:01:19 EST [thread overview]
Message-ID: <159.2e745aaa.2d6b7dcf@aol.com> (raw)
Can anyone offer a reference to the first published work which defined a
notion of strict n-category equivalent to that used today?
I know that Ehresmann invented n-tuple ( or n-fold ) categories which
contain strict n-categories as special cases. If this is the first
implicit defintion of strict n-category does anyone know who was the first
to isolate our current notion of strict n-category as a particularly
interesting special case of an n-tuple category?
Carl Futia
next reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 16:01 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-23 16:01 Topos8 [this message]
2004-02-25 9:57 ` Ronald Brown
2004-02-26 18:52 ` Andree Ehresmann
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