From: "Ellis D. Cooper" <xtalv1@netropolis.net>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: The Idea of Structure as Data and Conditions
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 18:09:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1SYO9t-0006xQ-MZ@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In the 1952 document at
http://mathdoc.emath.fr/archives-bourbaki/PDF/nbt_029.pdf the only
mathematician
"pr\'{e}sent" referenced by first name only is Sammy.
I was permitted to audit a graduate course on category theory guided
by Sammy at Columbia University in the early 1960s.
I recall his insistence that mathematical structure is given by data
and conditions. Is that idea
implicit or explicit in Bourbaki? Has that idea been superceded? How
does it relate to the
development of algebraic theories as understood by Lawvere, Linton,
Barr-Wells, the Elephant, and so on?
Ellis D. Cooper
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next reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 22:09 Ellis D. Cooper [this message]
2012-05-26 23:48 ` Michael Barr
2012-05-27 18:16 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2012-05-28 6:00 ` FEJ Linton
2012-05-29 13:28 ` Staffan Angere
2012-05-30 6:26 ` Vaughan Pratt
2012-05-27 13:02 ` Charles Wells
[not found] ` <CABZOOqZ54NtG1n3K4f8o6mMRSgZ_2yVjE6S+-UWkQSO_PXi1tQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-27 13:06 ` Charles Wells
2012-05-27 23:25 ` Vaughan Pratt
2012-05-29 3:15 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-05-29 13:28 ` Colin McLarty
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