From: Tom Leinster <T.Leinster@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Szabo's Algebra of Proofs
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:49:05 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14DxeT-0001FA-00@plover.dpmms.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14931.40881.870584.819395@goedel.engr.csufresno.edu> from "Todd Wilson" at Jan 03, 2001 01:54:57 PM
I don't know anything about the subject itself, but according to math. review
93a:03062 there's a paper by Barry Jay refuting one of Szabo's claims. The
paper is `Coherence in category theory and the Church-Rosser property',
Notre Dame J Formal Logic 33 (1992), no 1, 140-143.
Tom
Todd Wilson wrote:
>
> In the book
>
> M. E. Szabo, Algebra of Proofs, Studies in Logic and the
> Foundations of Mathematics, Vol. 88, North-Holland, 1978.
[...]
> The book itself contains a wealth of technical detail that includes
> many dozens of claims whose proofs are not worked out in detail. I'm
> writing to ask whether anyone has any knowledge about the degree to
> which this work was refereed and/or whether the results have been
> verified independently. I'm appealing especially to those who work in
> categorical logic or those interested in automatic proof verification
> in category theory, both of which groups, it would seem, should be
> interested in Szabo's work.
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2001-01-03 21:54 Todd Wilson
2001-01-03 23:49 ` Tom Leinster [this message]
2001-01-04 0:47 ` Robert A.G. Seely
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