From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8420 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kyle Marek-Spartz Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: RE: Applications of (higher) category theory to computer science Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:04:24 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Kyle Marek-Spartz NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418510361 19907 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2014 22:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dee Roytenberg , categories@mta.ca To: "Linton\, Fred" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Dec 13 23:39:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzvLG-0001Jx-DG for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 23:39:14 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45038) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzvKJ-0005qX-2L; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzvKK-0004E8-3f for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:38:16 -0400 In-reply-to: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8420 Archived-At: The Arbib & Manes text I've got (Arrows, Structures, & Functors) is a good intro to category theory, and doesn't dive into how it applies to computer science, as much as I would hope. I haven't read it, but I'd imagine e.g. Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics might be more appropriate. Linton, Fred writes: > Dee Roytenberg [roytenberg.d@gmail.com], on Thursday, December 11, 2014, asked, regarding Applications of (higher) category theory to computer science: > >> Could someone recommend a good text on the subject? ... > > I might suggest Category Theory applied to Computation and Control, Proceedings of the First International Symposium, U. Mass., Amherst, 1974, ed. E.G. Manes, and the works by Arbib & Manes, and by Goguen, Thatcher, Wright, et al., cited in bibliographies within those proceedings articles. > > I hope that helps. Cheers, -- FEJ -- Kyle Marek-Spartz [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]