From: Eduardo Dubuc <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: dagger vs involutive
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:19:05 -0300 (ART) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HOOxa-0000Qf-MZ@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
>
> In category theory, one is
> reminded of the hot debate of triples vs monads of the 60s and 70s. I
> guess that at the time of the "Zurich triple book" (SLNM 80) most
> people would have predicted that triples had already won the race. Mac
> Lane's book CWM appeared only 2 or 3 years later, after a vast amount
> of literature on triples. But he consistently used the meaningful name
> monad, even though (as far as I know) he had never directly published
> on the subject. You be the judge who won!
>
> Walter Tholen.
>
"after a vast amount of literature on triples"
you should recall that also
after a vast amount of literature on monads
e.d.
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2007-03-05 22:19 Eduardo Dubuc [this message]
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2007-03-07 15:13 Paul B Levy
2007-03-06 19:37 Zinovy Diskin
2007-03-05 23:06 Prof. Peter Johnstone
2007-03-05 12:38 tholen
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