From: "Galchin Vasili" <vigalchin@gmail.com>
To: "Categories mailing list" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Topos theory in the New Scientist
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:21:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HdAzw-000258-MZ@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Isham's new set of papers "A Topos Foundation for Theories of Physics" ..
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/topos_physics/
On 4/12/07, Prof. Peter Johnstone <P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Category theorists in general, and topos theorists in particular,
> may want to check out this week's cover story in the New Scientist
> (www.newscientist.com). The author (Robert Matthews of Aston
> University in Birmingham) is clearly a fan of Chris Isham: it's not
> clear to me whether he actually knows what a topos is, but he has
> committed himself to statements such as
>
> "Topos theory could lead to a view of reality more astonishing
> and successful than quantum theory"
>
> which is splashed all over page 32 of the magazine. Even if you don't
> believe this (and I don't think I do) it's pleasant to see topos theory
> getting this sort of publicity.
>
> Peter Johnstone
>
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2007-04-13 22:21 Galchin Vasili [this message]
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2007-04-12 21:14 Prof. Peter Johnstone
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