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From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: "categories" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: additions
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:43:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NNED2-0006EI-V1@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:20:29 PM EST, Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
reminisced:

> ... His 
> reply essentially was, "Oh, it's category theory language.  Well, I won't 
> allow any of that in MY notes. No analyst would use that language."

Amusing tale, reminding me of Sammy's response when I approached him, oh so
many decades ago, about supervising my proposed thesis on functorial measure 
theory: "Measure theory? That's analysis, isn't it? Go ask an analyst."

Cheers, and Seasons' Greetings, 

-- FEJ Linton




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             reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22  1:43 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-23  1:38 additions Fred E.J. Linton
2009-12-17 23:30 A well kept secret? peasthope
2009-12-18  4:09 ` John Baez
2009-12-20 17:50   ` Joyal, André
     [not found]     ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E2159B6AA@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2009-12-21  8:43       ` additions Joyal, André
2009-12-21 14:16         ` additions Bob Coecke
2009-12-22  2:24           ` additions Joyal, André
2009-12-23 20:51             ` additions Thorsten Altenkirch
2009-12-24 23:55             ` additions Dusko Pavlovic
2009-12-26  2:14             ` additions Peter Selinger
2009-12-22  0:39         ` additions Mike Stay
2009-12-23 11:19           ` additions Steve Vickers
2009-12-23 18:06             ` additions Mike Stay
2009-12-24 13:12               ` additions Carsten Führmann
2009-12-24 19:23               ` additions Dusko Pavlovic
2009-12-23 19:06             ` additions Thorsten Altenkirch
2009-12-21 19:20   ` additions Michael Barr
2009-12-22 12:21 ` additions Mark Weber
2009-12-23  0:05   ` additions Scott Morrison
2009-12-23 14:13     ` additions Mark Weber
     [not found] ` <4B3368C1.3000800@bath.ac.uk>
2009-12-24 16:25   ` additions Mike Stay
2009-12-26  0:03     ` additions Toby Bartels
     [not found]   ` <7f854b310912240825s39f195b2x2db16cc8f3a5cde7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-25  8:18     ` additions Carsten Führmann
     [not found] ` <4B347567.9070603@bath.ac.uk>
2009-12-29 23:17   ` additions Mike Stay
2009-12-30 21:00     ` additions Greg Meredith

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