From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3261 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "G. Sica" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: What is Category Theory? Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:53:21 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019190 7958 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:33:10 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Apr 20 10:23:23 2006 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:23:23 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FWZ3D-0002X9-Jc for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:18:27 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 59 Original-Lines: 46 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3261 Archived-At: Please allow me to bring to the attention of list members a recent publication about the foundations of Category Theory: WHAT IS CATEGORY THEORY? Editor: Giandomenico Sica http://www.polimetrica.com/polimetrica/389/ Price: 30 Euro. Forwarding and delivery charges are not included in the price. Publisher: Polimetrica Internatinal Scientific Publisher. Contributions and authors:=20 Abstract and Variable Sets in Category Theory (John L. Bell) Categories for Knotted Curves, Surfaces and Quandles (Scott Carter) Introducing Categories to the Practicing Physicist (Bob Coecke) Some Implications of the Adoption of Category Theory for Philosophy (David Corfield) Sets, Categories and Structuralism (Costas A. Drossos) A Theory of Adjoint Functors =E2=80=93 with some Thoughts about their Philosophical Significance (David Ellerman) Enriched Stratified Systems for the Foundations of Category Theory (Solomon Feferman) Category Theory, Pragmatism and Operations Universal in Mathematics (Ralf Kr=C3=B6mer) What is Category Theory?=20 (Jean-Pierre Marquis) Category Theory: an abstract setting for analogy and comparison=20 (Ronald Brown =E2=80=93 Tim Porter) On Doing Category Theory within Set Theoretic Foundations (Vidhy=C4=81n=C4=81th K. Rao) The best way to purchase this book is to buy it directly from the publisher's web-site: http://www.polimetrica.com .=20 I hope you can be interested in this information. If not, please accept my sincere apologies for the trouble: this is not a spam message. Many thanks. All the best, Giandomenico Sica