From: Johannes Huebschmann <huebschm@math.univ-lille1.fr>
To: Steve Stevenson <steve@clemson.edu>
Cc: Categories List <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Origin of the term "functor"
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:43:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1UxAoM-00075r-U3@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1UwVbI-0006JE-Hk@mlist.mta.ca>
In Categories for the working mathematician Mac Lane
himself explains the origin of the terminology
(end of first chapter):
"Functor" is taken from
R. Carnap, Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934).
I am not sure whether linguistics/semiotics in our sense
correctly refers to Carnap
(Frege, Carnap, Goedel, Popper, Quine, Tarski, ...).
Best regards
Johannes
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Steve Stevenson wrote:
> Wikipedia says that the word "functor" is borrowed from work by Carnap
> on linguistics. Is anyone aware of other roots of category theory that
> come from linguistics/semiotics?
>
> --
> D. E. (Steve) Stevenson, PhD, Emeritus Associate Professor, Clemson University
> "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach," Aristotle.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-07 18:34 Steve Stevenson
2013-07-09 12:21 ` Peter May
2013-07-11 7:40 ` Johannes Huebschmann
2013-07-09 12:43 ` Johannes Huebschmann [this message]
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