Re: Paper on variable set theory

[Camell Kachour <camell.kachour@gmail.com>]

Dear categoricists,

It is well known that higher category theory has applications in homotopy
(Work of Joyal, Lurie, Grothendieck conjecture, etc.).

May someone gives me some references about probable applications of higher
category theory in other areas ? I guess in computer science and
other areas (rewriting ? etc.), they are probably some works !?

Thank you very much to give me these references and for your help !

Best regards,
Camell.


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Around 1986, Colin McLarty, Charles Wells, and I noticed that Scientific
> American had recently published a few articles on subjects mathematical
> and decided to try to write one on variable set theory, AKA topos theory.
> Unfortunately, that particular window at Sci Am quickly closed.  Our
> article was turned down and we forgot about it.  More recently, I decided
> it might be interesting, or at least amusing to throw it open to the
> categorical community.  The result can be found at
> ftp://ftp.math.mcgill.ca/barr/pdffiles/vst.pdf
>
> Michael
>
> --
>         Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
> signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
> fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
>

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