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From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: "F. William Lawvere" <wlawvere@hotmail.com>
Cc: janelg@telkomsa.net, fejlinton@usa.net,	categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Stone duality for generalized Boolean algebras
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:41:12 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PiVvO-0003nX-Te@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PiGkE-0000X1-CJ@mlist.mta.ca>

We should all listen:

Bill Lawvere just illuminate us again with the following:

He wrote:

"Category theory can sometimes discern the germ of nontrivial in the trivial."

Categorically thinking mathematicians should be aware of this, if not, they
just remain in the surface of category theory

e.d.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-23 15:38 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-01-24 21:15 ` George Janelidze
2011-01-26  0:51   ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2011-01-26 17:19   ` F. William Lawvere
2011-01-27  2:41     ` Eduardo J. Dubuc [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-22 18:47 Jeff Egger
2011-01-21 22:39 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-01-21 13:19 Andrej Bauer
2011-01-21 23:06 ` George Janelidze
2011-01-23  4:06 ` Yoshihiro Maruyama

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