From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/221 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Monads Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:47:41 -0300 Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Barr NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238804443 7571 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2009 00:20:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:20:43 +0000 (UTC) To: Peter May , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Apr 04 02:22:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lpte4-0004xb-PB for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Lpt6r-0007GN-7W for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:47:41 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:221 Archived-At: Sorry if this offended you, but I heard from several places that you claimed the invention of the term. You will note that one other respondent credited it to you, so there must have been a meme to that effect. If you never made that claim then I truly apologize. Perhaps people confused "monad" with "operad", which I do believe you invented. Michael