From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: Peter May <may@math.uchicago.edu>, categories@mta.ca, <rvogt@uos.de>
Subject: Re: Monads
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:07:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Lpt5u-0007CZ-LP@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Peter May wrote:
> I never claimed to invent the term monad. I did
> invent the term operad, as a portmanteau of operation and monad.
> Peter May
>
>
which I am happy to confirm
I think I was there at the time
or at least nearby
jim
Rainer,
Is this covered in your memoir of those miravulaous years?
jim
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2009-04-03 14:07 jim stasheff [this message]
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2009-04-06 4:33 Monads Patrik Eklund
2009-04-04 15:45 Monads jim stasheff
2009-04-04 3:31 Monads Ross Street
2009-04-03 23:47 Monads Michael Barr
2009-04-03 13:56 Monads Marta Bunge
2009-04-02 12:51 Monads Peter May
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