From: David Roberts <droberts.65537@gmail.com>
To: "categories@mta.ca list" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: "First" use of 'Category theory' to describe our field
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:31:16 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hlJCL-0006sQ-Cp@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
Hi all,
the (idle) question is: when did the phrase 'category theory' catch on
for the field? Clearly it didn't leap from either of the heads of
Eilenberg or Mac Lane full-grown, since they used the phrase 'General
theory of natural equivalences'. There are the old 'Reports of the
Midwest Category Seminar' lecture notes (the first in 1967), which
hints that 'category theory' wasn't quite the name in use.
Even more interesting: who was the first "category theorist", by that name?
Answers referring to verifiable sources would be best.
Thoughts?
David
David Roberts
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2019-07-10 12:01 David Roberts [this message]
2019-07-10 22:51 ` Ross Street
2019-07-12 23:07 ` La Monte H. P. Yarroll
2019-07-13 22:14 ` Vaughan Pratt
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2019-07-15 12:30 ` David Roberts
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2019-07-10 22:58 ` David Roberts
2024-02-23 2:24 ` Fwd: categories: " David Roberts
2024-02-23 17:07 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2024-02-23 22:15 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2024-02-23 18:05 ` Colin McLarty
2019-07-11 1:06 ` David Roberts
2019-07-11 8:55 ` Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-11 12:58 ` Peter May
2019-07-12 21:04 ` Colin McLarty
[not found] ` <25191462-dc33-8b71-e00b-946c584ef5bb@math.uchicago.edu>
2019-07-11 13:12 ` David Roberts
2019-07-13 9:45 ` Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-14 15:58 ` Tadeusz Litak
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2019-07-15 4:36 ` Tadeusz Litak
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2019-07-14 20:18 ` George Janelidze
2019-07-15 18:16 Andrée Ehresmann
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