From: tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Categories and functors, query
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:55:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KcsEy-0000He-Gp@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Quoting Walter Tholen <tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca>:
> definition was arrived at without having to leave the universe. With the
> definition of category (and functor and natural transformation)
> Eilenberg and Moore had to do a lot more than just repeating at the
> monoid level what Brandt did at the group level! In my view their big
OOPS -- "Moore" should read "Mac Lane", of course. (Sorry, Saunders!) W.
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2008-09-09 10:53 Nikita Danilov
2008-09-08 16:00 Walter Tholen
2008-09-08 12:50 Michael Barr
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