From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4572 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Bourbaki and Categories Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020035 13900 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:47:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:47:15 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sat Sep 13 19:13:26 2008 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:13:26 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1KedGs-0005gP-VR for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:07:15 -0300 Content-Language: en Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 42 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4572 Archived-At: From: Robert Seely Date: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:17 pm noted > For those who like compliments: the triples website has had (for a > while now) a link to a lecture by Voevodsky given at the American > Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2002, in which he describes > "categories [as] one of the most important ideas of 20th century > mathematics". The video of the talk may be found at > > http://claymath.msri.org/voevodsky2002.mov > > (the compliment isn't the only reason for watching!). It is a terrific lecture. The line "I think that at the heart of 20th century mathematics lies one particular notion and that is the notion of a category" occurs at minute 16. best, Colin