From: Ronnie Brown <ronnie.profbrown@btinternet.com>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>,
Categories mailing list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Category Theory for the Sciences
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:41:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1YHC2Y-0004VX-0R@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YGohr-0004vg-Ty@mlist.mta.ca>
On 29/01/2015 00:59, Michael Barr wrote:
> I wonder what kind of science outside of string theory would find CT
> useful.
I think there are lots of answers to Mike's question. Just to give one,
I gave a talk in 2003 published with Tim Porter as
`Category theory and higher dimensional algebra: potential descriptive
tools in neuroscience', Proceedings of the International Conference on
Theoretical Neurobiology, Delhi, February 2003, edited by Nandini Singh,
National Brain Research
Centre, Conference Proceedings 1 (2003) 80-92. arXiv:math/0306223
which went well. A web search on "category theory and biology" shows
lots more.
Category theory has (at least) two aspects. One as a kind of meta
theory for discussing and relating mathematical structures; another as
giving a range of algebraic, or more generally, mathematical,
structures, often with algebraic operations with partial domains. We can
expect these to have over time surprising applications
Ronnie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 11:41 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
2015-01-29 15:47 ` Garraway, Dale
2015-01-30 2:22 ` majordomo
2015-01-30 11:41 ` Ronnie Brown [this message]
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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