From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8258 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Leinster Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: New book: Basic Category Theory Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:50:04 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Tom Leinster NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406751801 14432 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2014 20:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca, Tom Leinster To: "Harley D. Eades III" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Wed Jul 30 22:23:13 2014 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 1XCaP1-00056F-0s for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:49231) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XCaOh-0000N9-2S; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:22:51 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCaOg-0002jz-NZ for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:22:50 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8258 Archived-At: Dear Harley, Thanks! Actually, some of us were just discussing the possibility of writing a second category theory book as a collaborative venture: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/07/basic_category_theory.html#c046968 (But personally, I've probably had enough book-writing for a while.) Best wishes, Tom On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hi, Tom. > > Congrats on the successful completion of your book! > > I really like your idea on a second book. Such a book would be > very helpful for young researchers and students in my opinion. > > Has anyone thought about doing it as a group effort in the same > spirit as the homotopy type theory book was? > > A number of authors would make the writing burden far less per author, > and potentially speed up the writing process. > > Anyway, just an idea. > > I really like how you're are making your new book editable and readable for > free in 18 months. This is a great idea, and a service to the community. > > The second book should do the same. > > Very best, > .\ Harley > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]