Re: Publicity

[Steve Vickers <s.j.vickers@cs.bham.ac.uk>]

Dear Tom,

That's the wrong way to look at it. Category-land is really the land _between_ the fortresses. The courage to enter Category-land is the courage to leave the supposed protection of the city walls.

I was lucky enough to do my PhD in a region (Ringland) where they were already getting used to life without having those walls, but for for many of the city dwellers the idea that maths has anything to do with categories is as alien as the idea that milk comes from cows.

Steve.


On 11 Jun 2013, at 13:40, Tom Hirschowitz <tom.hirschowitz@univ-savoie.fr> wrote:

> ...
> Category-land, as Jean B?nabou calls it, may look like a fortress from
> the outside. So maybe we should be softer towards people trying to make
> it look attractive and open.
> 
> ...
> 
> (*) It was John Baez, `making a fool of himself' as usual, who made me
> think I could enter the fortress back in 2006. I'll probably never be as
> fluent as native category theorists, but I nevertheless think my
> research has improved since then.
> 


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