Re: The Wikibook on Category Theory

[Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com>]

There's a lot of content at nLab, the companion wiki to the n-category cafe.

http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Charles Wells<charles@abstractmath.org> wrote:
> The Category Theory book on
> Wikibooks<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category_Theory>has been
> languishing for three years, except for some good work done by
> Physis <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Physis>.  I have spent the last
> two days reorganizing it and cleaning it up.  I have broken the book into
> pages and introduced some stubs.  I have rewritten the Introduction and most
> of the chapter on Categories. The chapter on Natural Transformations covers
> the topic but I recommend it be rewritten in a more labeled style with
> bulleted lists, subsections, etc (like the Categories chapter)  The other
> chapters need to be completely rewritten to fix the TeX, get rid of the page
> references (to someone's lecture notes, presumably), and so on.
>
> This is a good project for retired category theorists.  Younger
> mathematicians get no academic rewards at all for contributing to Wikis.
>
> Note:  If you are interested in something special, just write it up!   For
> example you could write up typed lambda-calculus as an example, or a section
> on sheaves, or an introduction to 2-categories.  If you need to refer to
> something not yet written, just add a stub.  *Wikibooks do not have to be
> done in order. *
>
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