From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7776 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aleks Kissinger Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: More publicity Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:17:08 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Aleks Kissinger NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371734009 27747 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2013 13:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca list" To: David Yetter Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Jun 20 15:13:31 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 1Upefz-0004mm-Po for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:13:23 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:35897) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Upeel-0004ej-96; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:12:07 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Upeek-00068t-DH for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:12:06 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7776 Archived-At: 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 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. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]