From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5010 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Gould Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: no fundamental theorems please Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:27:36 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Miles Gould NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245763681 25352 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2009 13:28:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:01 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Jun 23 15:27:59 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 1MJ62Z-0002UU-2V for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MJ5Px-0005jQ-H3 for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:48:05 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5010 Archived-At: I expected my term to be slightly controversial, but didn't realise what depth of feeling existed on the subject! So, while I thank everyone for the very enlightening discussion of Yoneda's Lemma, and Paul for his thoughts on Fundamental Theorems, I'd like to ask: is there another name I can use for the theorem that right adjoints preserve limits and left adjoints preserve colimits that's (a) a bit less of a mouthful than that and (b) emphasises the result's importance and applicability? Miles [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]