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From: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: unital weak functor?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:20:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IYm6J-00011D-Lj@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:03:07AM +1000, Stephen Lack wrote:

> These are often called normal lax functors
> (or normal morphisms of bicategories).

I suggested "normalized", but "normal" is clearly better:
you normalize something to make it normal.

On a wholly different note - I hope people take a look at the
new videos by the Catsters.  They're using YouTube in an
interesting new way: to explain monads, adjunctions and the like.

For more info:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/09/the_catsters_latest_hit_adjunc.html

Best,
jb






             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 21:20 John Baez [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-20 23:23 Joachim Kock
2007-09-20 16:01 John Baez
2007-09-19 21:03 Stephen Lack
2007-09-19 19:30 Robin Houston
2007-09-19  0:58 Josh Nichols-Barrer

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