From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: re: A well kept secret
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NJYCH-0007E9-CN@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NJEre-0002dm-UC@mailserv.mta.ca>
Michael Barr wrote:
> There are several comments I could make to this posting, but I will
> confine myself to two. First, I was around all through the 70s (and most
> of the 60s) and I have no idea what categorists did to earn the
> opprobrium
> described below.
I have my suspicions as to what categorists did to earn the opprobrium
described below.
The high density of new vocabulary in many research papers.
Not enough published at the level of Saunders Cats for teh Working
mathematician
Too many papers doing category theory for its own sake
apologies ahead of time to anyone whose ox is being gored
jim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-12 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-29 23:31 Dangerous knowledge Joyal, André
2009-11-30 16:51 ` Mike Stay
2009-11-30 23:37 ` Dana Scott
[not found] ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E2159B5F8@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2009-12-02 4:03 ` Dangerous times Joyal, André
2009-12-01 1:40 ` Dangerous knowledge Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 14:26 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 14:30 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 2:32 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 15:13 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 16:43 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-02 2:25 ` RE : categories: " Joyal, André
2009-12-02 17:27 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 3:59 ` Dangerous ignorance Joyal, André
2009-12-01 13:56 ` Dangerous knowledge Charles Wells
2009-12-02 2:16 ` John Baez
2009-12-06 18:46 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 2:46 ` Joyal, André
2009-12-07 13:46 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 19:15 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 14:13 ` A well kept secret Joyal, André
2009-12-08 17:31 ` Steve Vickers
2009-12-09 14:18 ` Charles Wells
2009-12-10 14:49 ` Paul Taylor
2009-12-11 1:44 ` Michael Barr
2009-12-12 0:13 ` jim stasheff [this message]
2009-12-13 3:17 ` Wojtowicz, Ralph
2009-12-13 7:01 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-11 1:46 ` Tom Leinster
2009-12-11 6:51 ` Michael Fourman
2009-12-11 8:36 ` Greg Meredith
2009-12-12 19:00 ` Zinovy Diskin
[not found] ` <e3ef1bd7ee7e9e1e1ecdb201955e18f6@PaulTaylor.EU>
2009-12-10 15:51 ` RE : " Joyal, André
2009-12-13 3:30 ` Zinovy Diskin
2009-12-07 17:18 ` Dangerous knowledge Steve Vickers
2009-12-08 4:09 ` A well kept secret David Spivak
2009-12-12 15:57 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 5:23 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-09 16:12 ` Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
[not found] ` <7b998a320912090812x60551840r641fe9feb75efaee@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-09 17:02 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-10 18:03 ` Dangerous_knowledge Joyal, André
2009-12-09 7:40 A well kept secret? Ronnie Brown
2009-12-14 18:41 ` Andrew Stacey
2009-12-15 20:14 ` A well kept secret Joyal, André
2009-12-13 21:46 categorical "varieties of algebras" (fwd) Michael Barr
2009-12-14 19:52 ` A well kept secret Dusko Pavlovic
2009-12-16 17:17 F William Lawvere
2009-12-22 16:39 Andree Ehresmann
2009-12-23 15:30 ` Andrew Stacey
2009-12-28 10:07 ` Reinhard Boerger
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