From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4944 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Fundamental Theorem of Category Theory? Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:09:25 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244414911 14073 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 22:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:48:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "Ellis D. Cooper" , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Jun 08 00:48:28 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 1MDRAB-0005xT-2I for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:48:27 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MDQaM-0004nO-La for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:11:26 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4944 Archived-At: On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:51:38 PM EDT, "Ellis D. Cooper" asked: > There are Fundamental Theorems of Arithmetic, Algebra, Calculus, and > indeed, many more. > = > My question is, What would be candidates for the Fundamental Theorem > of Category Theory? > = > Yoneda Lemma comes to my mind. What do you think? Perhaps that, yes; or, perhaps, the characterization of representable functors. Cheers, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]