From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3656 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter May Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Mac Lane Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:58:31 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019437 9649 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:37:17 +0000 (UTC) To: cat-dist@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Mar 5 22:05:45 2007 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1HOOyg-0000WA-4j for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:00:34 -0400 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 10 Original-Lines: 12 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3656 Archived-At: I do hope monads won! But I thought I'd share the story of that. At the same time Saunders was writing CWM, I was introducing operads. I coined that word as a portmanteau (look up Lewis Carrol) of operations and monads, and I persuaded Saunders to switch from triple to monad to go along. He was not an easy man to persuade. Peter May