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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Fred Linton wrote:
> Today's postal mail brought me a shocker in a Dover catalogue:
> Dover has discovered -- and is reprinting -- topos theory books!
>
> On page 4 of that catalogue, Peter Johnstone's 1977 Topos Theory
> (Dover's ISBN-10: 0-486-49336-9), and on page 30, Bell's Toposes
> and Local Set Theories (Dover's ISBN-10: 0-486-46286-2).
>
> I suppose congratulations are in order to the authors :-) !
>
Well, maybe. I resisted this for quite a while, because I don't
really want people to buy `Topos Theory' (I'd much rather they
bought copies of the Elephant), but in the end I had to concede
that Dover knew their business better than I did, and if they said
there was a market for it they were probably right.
Incidentally, the reaction of one Cambridge colleague on learning
that I'd appeared as a Dover reprint was `I didn't know you were dead'.
Peter
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