From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5410 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Weber Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: additions Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:13:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mark Weber NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261595374 25322 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2009 19:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:09:34 +0000 (UTC) To: Scott Morrison , Michael Barr , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Dec 23 20:09:27 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 1NNWaM-0005CQ-4L for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:09:26 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NNWIE-00026E-9M for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:50:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5410 Archived-At: I wished to make the point that Tao uses categorical ideas and perspectives freely. It would've been better if I'd referred to the specific postings in which he does so ... http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/grothendiecks-definition-of-a-group/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/the-free-nilpotent-group/ These postings aren't about themselves about category theory, but in them he exhibits no inhibitions in using categorical language. Regards, Mark Weber On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Scott Morrison wrote: > Dear Mark, > > this is unfortunately a bad example. If you click through any of the > results for "category" on > Terry's page, you'll see that in nearly all cases, the only use of the > word "category" is in "n-Category Cafe", which appears in the sidebar > of every page, amongst the links to other blogs. > > best, > Scott Morrison [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]