From: Ross Street <ross.street@mq.edu.au>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Cc: Staffan Angere <Staffan.Angere@fil.lu.se>,
Colin McLarty <colin.mclarty@case.edu>
Subject: Re: Bourbaki & category theory
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:45:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1SXK57-0003jn-NX@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1SWswD-0006tb-1e@mlist.mta.ca>
On 23/05/2012, at 3:25 AM, Colin McLarty wrote:
> Prior to encountering category theory, Bourbaki had a notion of
> isomorphism but no general notion of morphism.
Perhaps relevant (categories vs Bourbaki) is my memory that Sammy Eilenberg
told me he and Chevalley invented the words injective, surjective and
bijective (as pertaining to functions) while strolling along a beach.
Also I heard Dieudonné admit that Bourbaki would have profited at least from the
categorical notion of duality.
==Ross
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 22:49 Staffan Angere
2012-05-22 17:25 ` Colin McLarty
2012-05-22 21:45 ` Ross Street [this message]
2012-05-22 21:51 ` George Janelidze
2012-05-27 17:09 ` Bourbaki, Ehresmann & species of structures Andree Ehresmann
[not found] ` <800CD7A683A74A6299D3AEC536E36256@ACERi3>
2012-05-22 23:06 ` Bourbaki & category theory Colin McLarty
[not found] ` <CAOzx82oAVzdsEwrY9MQfLTdcA12m1N2ght18cJHxahgt5Onv=g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-23 11:36 ` George Janelidze
2012-05-24 3:46 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2012-05-24 10:53 ` Colin McLarty
2012-05-22 17:49 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2012-05-23 23:33 ` maxosin
2012-05-24 0:03 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2012-05-25 1:52 ` Colin McLarty
2012-05-27 14:16 ` Bourbaki and category theory again George Janelidze
2012-05-27 19:44 ` William Messing
2012-05-24 2:49 ` Bourbaki & category theory rlk
2012-06-13 23:18 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-06-14 15:57 ` pjf
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