From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7767 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Yetter Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: More publicity Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:55:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: David Yetter NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371232600 15723 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2013 17:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ross Street To: "categories@mta.ca list" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Jun 14 19:56:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnYEq-0003KU-9e for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:41331) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UnYDA-0006J8-U2; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:54:56 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnYDA-00024N-CU for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:54:56 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7767 Archived-At: I'm pleased to see the items quoted from Coecke include "string = diagrams" as they are now called. Although they occur first in Kelly and Laplaza's paper on coherence for = compact closed categories, and again in Street's work with Joyal in the mid-80's, I think I was the first = person to use them, in public at least, in the form with "coupons" (to borrow the term Reshtikhin and Turaev used a few = months later) to represent maps which aren't inherent in the (braided or symmetric compact closed) = monoidal structure. Best Thoughts, David Y. On 12 Jun 2013, at 03:41, Ross Street wrote: > Okay, how about this then? >=20 > = http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/16/quantum-mechanic= al-words-and-mathematical-organisms/ >=20 > =3D=3DRoss >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]