From: Aleks Kissinger <aleks0@gmail.com>
To: David Yetter <dyetter@math.ksu.edu>
Cc: "categories@mta.ca list" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: More publicity
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:17:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Upeek-00068t-DH@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
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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