Re: Looking for volunteers to help with typesetting Bird's 1984 thesis

Re: Looking for volunteers to help with typesetting Bird's 1984 thesis

[Todd Wilson]

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Why not let your favorite AI agent take a stab at this first? I've used them for similar jobs in the past, and with the right prompting, they can usually complete the job with very high accuracy, with only a little cleanup required at the end.

Todd Wilson
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Fresno

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM Nathanael Arkor <nathanael.arkor@gmail.com<mailto:nathanael.arkor@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,

I am looking for volunteers to help with the task of re-typesetting Greg Bird's 1984 thesis "Limits in 2-Categories of Locally-Presentable Categories" for publication (a scanned copy may be found here<http://science.mq.edu.au/~street/BirdPhD.pdf>). Bird's thesis is an influential work in two-dimensional category theory that remains one of the best references for a number of constructions in 2-category theory and the theory of locally presentable categories, but has unfortunately enjoyed limited distribution. It is thus fitting that it should be reprinted and thereby made more widely accessible.

Each volunteer will be allocated approximately 10 pages to typeset. In my experience, it takes about an hour to typeset 10 pages (and should certainly not take longer than a few hours). There are a little over 100 pages, so I am hoping for around 10 volunteers. (I will handle the typesetting of the diagrams myself.)

Please let me know by replying (privately) to this email if you would be willing to assist with the typesetting process. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Nathanael


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