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
Jeremy.Gibbons@comlab.ox.ac.uk
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2011-06-18 13:57 ` Marta Bunge
2011-06-20 19:37 Fred E.J. Linton
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