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From: Dusko Pavlovic <dusko@kestrel.edu>
To: Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
Subject: Re: equality
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:48:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NXQWs-0002K9-Nv@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

[[sorry about the delay with replying: i am travelling.]]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Colin McLarty wrote:

>> several people suggest dependent type theory as a foundation to
>> formalize categories. maybe it is worth mentioning that per martin-
>> loef (the originatory of dependent types) worked this out, prolly in
>> the 70s.
>
> Is there a published account of this, preferably on the web?

i am not aware of any of martin-loef's writings on the web. i was
talking from memory (as i am not near my filing cabinet with the paper
copies). martin-loef's category theory example could be in his
bibliopolis book, or in one of his Logic Colloquium contributions.

-- dusko


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             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19  4:48 Dusko Pavlovic [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-03  7:23 the definition of "evil" Peter Selinger
2010-01-05 20:04 ` dagger not evil Joyal, André
     [not found]   ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E370F5672@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
     [not found]     ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E370F5673@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2010-01-09  3:29       ` equality is beautiful Joyal, André
2010-01-10 17:17         ` Steve Vickers
     [not found]           ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E370F5677@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2010-01-12 16:24             ` A challenge to all Joyal, André
2010-01-13  2:28               ` Michael Shulman
2010-01-13 20:53                 ` equality Dusko Pavlovic
2010-01-14 14:23                   ` equality Colin McLarty

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