From: Steve Lack <s.lack@uws.edu.au>
To: <burroni@math.jussieu.fr>,
Thorsten Altenkirch <txa@Cs.Nott.AC.UK>, <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Where does the term monad come from?
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:33:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Lpj1I-0005KM-Bx@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Dear All,
Just another quick comment about monads:
On 2/04/09 8:19 AM, "burroni@math.jussieu.fr" <burroni@math.jussieu.fr>
wrote:
> Cher Thorsten,
>
> toutes mes excuses pour ce message en français.
>
> Le terme "monade" a été employé par Benabou (LNM Springer no 47, si je
> ne me trompe) et dans un sens abstrait : pseudofoncteur 1 --> B de la
> bicatégorie finale 1 vers une bicatégorie arbitraire B. Par la suite
> il a été convenu de le résever au cas particulier où B=Cat (en
> remplacement du terme "triple").
Some people may reserve monad for the case B=Cat, but not all. After Benabou
demonstrated the incredible importance of this idea in various B, the theory
of monads in 2-categories/bicategories has been widely developed, starting
(I believe) with Ross Street's "Formal theory of monads".
Steve.
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2009-04-03 4:33 Steve Lack [this message]
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2009-04-12 1:30 Steve Lack
2009-04-11 15:43 Thorsten Altenkirch
2009-04-07 16:50 Zinovy Diskin
2009-04-07 15:10 jim stasheff
2009-04-07 7:32 Vaughan Pratt
2009-04-07 2:06 RJ Wood
2009-04-06 20:24 John Baez
2009-04-06 4:52 Patrik Eklund
2009-04-03 13:55 burroni
2009-04-03 4:28 Steve Lack
2009-04-02 13:31 jim stasheff
2009-04-01 21:19 burroni
2009-04-01 19:47 Venanzio Capretta
2009-04-01 18:45 Johannes.Huebschmann
2009-04-01 18:13 Michael Barr
2009-04-01 11:24 Thorsten Altenkirch
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