From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4595 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andre.Rodin@ens.fr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Bourbaki and Categories Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:32:11 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020047 13981 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:47:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:47:27 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Tue Sep 16 21:25:27 2008 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:25:27 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Kfklv-0004k3-El for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:19:55 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 65 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4595 Archived-At: Certainly! I shall try. Thank you for encouraging! This issue seems me al= so interesting from a different viewpoint. Even if the New Maths was a pedag= ogical failure it is still remarkable that the traditional school mathematics ca= n be wholly spelled out in the Bourbaki-like terms. I wonder if CT allows for anything of this sort. andrei >Still, it might b interesting and even instructive to try to build a >sketch whose objects are (interpreted as) sets of points sets of lines, >sets of circles and intersection is an operation. I guess incidence wou= ld >have to a relation. It might work. >Michael