From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8476 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Wells Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Category Theory for the Sciences Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:59:30 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Charles Wells NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422626031 30485 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2015 13:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories mailing list To: Michael Barr Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Jan 30 14:53:47 2015 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 1YHC13-0000Yr-KI for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:53:45 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:59841) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YHC06-000291-Qj; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHC05-0004Nf-3U for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:52:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8476 Archived-At: *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 caf=C3=A9 and its ancillary site n-lab . 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 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 > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]