From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The Wikibook on Category Theory Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:19:42 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mike Stay 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 1250340001 1149 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 12:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:40:01 +0000 (UTC) To: Charles Wells , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Aug 15 14:39:53 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 1McIY5-0003dI-Ff for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:39:53 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1McI31-0003ZS-P8 for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:07:47 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5090 Archived-At: 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 wr= ote: > The Category Theory book on > Wikibookshas been > languishing for three years, except for some good work done by > Physis . =A0I have spent the la= st > two days reorganizing it and cleaning it up. =A0I have broken the book in= to > pages and introduced some stubs. =A0I have rewritten the Introduction and= most > of the chapter on Categories. The chapter on Natural Transformations cove= rs > the topic but I recommend it be rewritten in a more labeled style with > bulleted lists, subsections, etc (like the Categories chapter) =A0The oth= er > chapters need to be completely rewritten to fix the TeX, get rid of the p= age > references (to someone's lecture notes, presumably), and so on. > > This is a good project for retired category theorists. =A0Younger > mathematicians get no academic rewards at all for contributing to Wikis. > > Note: =A0If you are interested in something special, just write it up! = =A0 For > example you could write up typed lambda-calculus as an example, or a sect= ion > on sheaves, or an introduction to 2-categories. =A0If you need to refer t= o > something not yet written, just add a stub. =A0*Wikibooks do not have to = be > done in order. * > > -- > professional website: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/wells/home.html > blog: http://sixwingedseraph.wordpress.com/ > abstract math website: http://www.abstractmath.org/MM//MMIntro.htm > astounding math stories: > http://www.abstractmath.org/MM//MMAstoundingMath.htm > personal website: =A0http://www.abstractmath.org/Personal/index.html > sixwingedseraph.facebook.com > --=20 Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]