From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Marta Bunge" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: cracks and pots Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:29:42 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: marta.bunge@mcgill.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019088 7196 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:28 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Mar 13 18:50:29 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FIviW-0000Ji-JW for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:40:44 -0400 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 36 Original-Lines: 42 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3090 Archived-At: Hi, I just came across the following pages http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/11/category-theory-and-physics.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/11/this-week-208-analysis.html written by Lubos Motl, a physicist (string theorist). Some of you may find these articles interesting and probably revealing. Are we category theorists as a whole going to quietly accept getting discredited by a minority of us presumably applying category theory to string theory? It is surely not too late to react and point out that this is not what (all of) category theory is about. Please give a thought about what we, as a community, can urgently do to repair this damaging impression. Unless we are prepared to wait until things change by themselves within our lifetime. Hopefully disturbing your weekend, Cordially, Marta ************************************************ Marta Bunge Professor Emerita Dept of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University 805 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6 Office: (514) 398-3810 Home: (514) 935-3618 marta.bunge@mcgill.ca http://www.math.mcgill.ca/bunge/ ************************************************