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From: Charles Wells <charles@abstractmath.org>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
Cc: Categories mailing list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Category Theory for the Sciences
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:59:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1YHC05-0004Nf-3U@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YGohr-0004vg-Ty@mlist.mta.ca>

*Higher* category theory has been of great interest to a certain kind of
physicist, not just string theorists, for some years. The central place
where they commune is at  the n-category café
<https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/> and its ancillary site n-lab
<http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage>. Lately some higher category
theorists have done a lot of work on homotopy type theory.

Charles

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> A book of that name by David I. Spivak, Mathematics at MIT was recently
> published by the MIT Press.  Has anyone seen it?  Did it seem interesting.
> I wonder what kind of science outside of string theory would find CT
> useful.
>
> Michael
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-29  0:59 Michael Barr
2015-01-29 13:30 ` Marco Benini
     [not found] ` <695A0217-361A-490F-BE0E-7522D35E725D@gmail.com>
2015-01-29 13:53   ` Harley Eades III
2015-01-29 14:59 ` Charles Wells [this message]
2015-01-29 15:47 ` Garraway, Dale
2015-01-30  2:22 ` majordomo
2015-01-30 11:41 ` Ronnie Brown
2015-01-30 20:32 ` Patrik Eklund
2015-02-02  8:40 ` Andree Ehresmann
2015-01-30 19:03 Fred E.J. Linton
2015-02-01 22:10 ` Vaughan Pratt
2015-01-30 20:38 Fred E.J. Linton

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