From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7296 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rlk@knighten.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Bourbaki & category theory Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:49:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rlk@knighten.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337905552 9297 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 00:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 00:25:52 +0000 (UTC) To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri May 25 02:25:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.80]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SXiLl-00031u-8m for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:25:49 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44058) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXiLD-0005CD-TF; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:25:15 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXiLF-0000Hq-6w for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 24 May 2012 21:25:17 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7296 Archived-At: Eduardo J. Dubuc writes: > . . . > The notion of universal property first appears in Bourbaki, > . . . The notion and name (well "universal mappinga") first appears in: @article {MR0025152, AUTHOR = {Samuel, P.}, TITLE = {On universal mappings and free topological groups}, JOURNAL = {Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.}, FJOURNAL = {Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society}, VOLUME = {54}, YEAR = {1948}, PAGES = {591--598}, ISSN = {0002-9904}, MRCLASS = {56.0X}, MRNUMBER = {0025152 (9,605f)}, MRREVIEWER = {S. Mac Lane}, } Of course Samuel was a member of Bourbaki at the time but this seems to be the influence of Samuel on Bourbaki rather than the other way around. Note that Mac Lane reviewed this and he was quick to use both the notion and the terminology in his own writings. -- Bob -- Robert L. Knighten 541-296-4528 RLK@knighten.org [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]