From: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: RE: A well kept secret?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:38:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NMW2J-0002jr-5o@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NMMZ0-0001FF-Bt@mailserv.mta.ca>
2009/12/19 Larry Harper <harper@math.ucr.edu>:
mentions
> When I heard of
> Serge Langs's characterization of CT as "abstract nonsense" it reinforced
> what I already thought (See however,
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
>
> which does not mention Serge Lang in the body of the article).
Lang's Algebra uses "abstract nonsense" to describe his favorite kind
of one line proof that some given construction (such as tensor
product) defines its results uniquely up to isomorphism. It is
discussed on the discussion page of the wikipedia article.
best, Colin
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2009-12-20 1:00 Larry Harper
2009-12-20 14:38 ` Colin McLarty [this message]
2009-12-20 17:47 ` jim stasheff
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2009-12-17 23:30 peasthope
2009-12-18 4:09 ` John Baez
2009-12-18 22:25 ` Ellis D. Cooper
2009-12-19 17:45 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-19 22:16 ` John Baez
2009-12-20 22:52 ` Greg Meredith
2009-12-21 15:46 ` Zinovy Diskin
2009-12-22 16:59 ` zoran skoda
2009-12-23 1:53 ` Tom Leinster
2009-12-23 14:15 ` Colin McLarty
2009-12-20 21:50 ` jim stasheff
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2009-12-23 4:31 ` Zinovy Diskin
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2009-12-25 20:06 ` Zinovy Diskin
2009-12-20 17:50 ` Joyal, André
2009-12-18 10:48 ` KCHM
2009-12-19 20:55 ` Vaughan Pratt
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