From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5390 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: A well kept secret? Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261356650 23970 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2009 00:50:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:50:50 +0000 (UTC) To: "Ellis D. Cooper" , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Dec 21 01:50:42 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 1NMWTx-0002he-PX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:50:41 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NMW5l-0002s8-0U for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:25:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5390 Archived-At: Ellis D. Cooper wrote: > At 11:09 PM 12/17/2009, John Baez wrote: >> I think it's premature to introduce category theory in the undergrad >> curriculum. > > I think there are enough very interesting simple examples of > categories that the language and diagrams could be introduced > to high school students. agreed diagrams yes vocabulary can wait until the ideas have grown jim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]