From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5374 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: peasthope@shaw.ca Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: A well kept secret? Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:30 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: peasthope@shaw.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261101731 31570 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2009 02:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:02:11 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Fri Dec 18 03:02:02 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 1NLSAK-0007fD-B7 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:02:00 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NLRqY-0000cU-Ty for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:41:35 -0400 X-Mailer: Oberon Mail (ejz) on PC Native 05.01.2003 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5374 Archived-At: Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:12:53 -0800 John Baez wrote, > ... older category theorists ... fought to convince > the world that category theory was > worthwhile. Some feel they lost that fight. They won it ... but how prevalent is the subject in undergraduate programs? Vector algebra and analysis wasn't taught to engineers until what, 1900 or later. Now it is ubiquitous. Absolutely no offense to existing books but what about an energetic mathematician or two writing a _Schaum's Outline of Category Theory_? I'd expect it to sell off the shelves initially. Regards, ... Peter E. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]