From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5349 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Meredith Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: A well kept secret Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:36:13 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Greg Meredith NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260575978 23731 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2009 23:59:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:59:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Paul Taylor , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Dec 12 00:59:31 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 1NJFOQ-0000bI-VP for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:59:27 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NJEwU-0002si-PG for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:30:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5349 Archived-At: Dear Paul, Two more examples: when is some Australian going to write "2-categories for the working categorist"? Where is the textbook on universal algebra based on monads? Absolutely. The latter would so greatly simplify a number of cross-disciplinary conversations. Best wishes, --greg On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: > I'm not too sure what the context was, but Andre' Joyal said on 7 > December, > > > > Category theory is a powerful mathematical language. It is extremely > good > > for organising, unifying and suggesting new directions of research. > > I completely agree. > > > > It is probably the most important mathematical developpement of > > the 20th century. > > It is too early to tell. > > [Comment attributed to Zhou Enlai (Chinese Communist leader 1949-76) > when asked his opinion of the French Revolution.] > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]