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From: Jeremy Gibbons <jeremy.gibbons@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
To: Categories mailing list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Lawvere on probability distributions as a monad
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:08:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PrtHc-0006NL-Up@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

I wonder if you fine categorists could help me track down an old
preprint?

Many people have written about probability distributions forming a
monad (and so probabilistic computations can be captured as a
"computational effect"). The reference trail goes back to

    Michele Giry, "A Categorical Approach to Probability Theory", LNM
915:68-85, 1981

and thence to

    F W Lawvere, "The Category of Probabilistic Mappings", preprint, 1962

I have Giry's paper, but can find no trace on the web of Lawvere's
preprint. Does anyone know where I might find a copy? Might someone
even have a copy that they would be prepared to scan?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 14:08 Jeremy Gibbons [this message]
2011-06-13 21:28 ` Jeremy Gibbons
2011-08-06 17:24   ` Jeremy Gibbons
     [not found] ` <23348_1308400646_4DFC9C06_23348_63_1_E1QXujD-000335-SX@mlist.mta.ca>
2011-06-18 13:57   ` Marta Bunge
2011-06-20 19:37 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-06-20 19:52 Fred E.J. Linton

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