From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7300 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Bourbaki & category theory Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 21:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Colin McLarty NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337950355 28868 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 12:52:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri May 25 14:52:34 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 1SXu0L-0002G6-EZ for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 14:52:29 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44217) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXtzI-0003lt-Az; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:51:24 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXtzI-0002f9-6U for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:51:24 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7300 Archived-At: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote: > On 22/05/12 14:49, Eduardo J. Dubuc wrote: > I received a private mail that can be of interest to many and that I copy > and paste below: Following that link, a search leads to http://mathdoc.emath.fr/archives-bourbaki/PDF/nbt_029.pdf where we find Le Tribu no. 28 (reporting in a meeting of June-July 1952). Page 3 includes this report on the state of Theorie des Ensembles Ch. 4, Structures: > Le Congr=E8s =E0 travaill=E9 pour d=E9gager la notion de homomorphisme. The context is interesting. The point is, this confirms what was already known, that Bourbaki worked to find a general notion of homomorphism after Weil (1951) suggested they should. And Weil had named Mac~Lane as suggesting the idea. best, Colin . > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Pierre Cartier, Chritian Houzel, Andrej Rodin and Ralf Kr=F6mer wrote abo= ut > that issue. > > You will find the source material, i.e. the early Bourbaki archives > (1934-1954), which show various early attempts at defining "structure", > online at http://mathdoc.emath.fr/archives-bourbaki/ > A bibliography of sources on Bourbaki is at > http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/Actu/?contentId=3D9473 > > One may not confuse any edition of the first volume of the Elements with > Bourbaki relatively evolving thoughts on this matter. > > There is a lot to be learnt from reading the sources. Please notice that = I > replied to you personally and not to the whole list. Be kind to a shy > person. Best regards, LB > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > e.d. > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]