More publicity

More publicity

[Ross Street]

Okay, how about this then?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/16/quantum-mechanical-words-and-mathematical-organisms/

==Ross

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Re: More publicity

[David Yetter]

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?
> 
> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/16/quantum-mechanical-words-and-mathematical-organisms/
> 
> ==Ross
> 



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Re: More publicity

[Aleks Kissinger]

Hi David,

Could you point me to some papers on this? (both yours and
Reshtikhin/Turaev) I'm particularly interested in the "early" history
of string diagrams (i.e. between Penrose 71 and J&S 91) and
diagrammatic notation in general.


Best,

Aleks

On 13 June 2013 18:55, David Yetter <dyetter@math.ksu.edu> wrote:
> 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.

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