From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5018 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrej Bauer Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: no fundamental theorems please Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:47:18 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Andrej Bauer NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245789615 16661 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2009 20:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: Miles Gould , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Jun 23 22:40:06 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 1MJCmi-0002T9-JJ for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MJC9d-0002zN-Dj for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:59:41 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5018 Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Miles Gould wrote: > is there another name I can use for the theorem that right > adjoints preserve limits and left adjoints preserve colimits My teacher of category theory calls the first of these two theorems RAPL. Maybe he can explain whether he picked it up from someone. Somehow, LAPC does not sound so good. Andrej [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]