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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next reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 1:43 UTC|newest]
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2009-12-22 1:43 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
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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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