* Categories and functors, Funktor
@ 2019-07-19 11:32 Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-19 18:45 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
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From: Johannes Huebschmann @ 2019-07-19 11:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear All
For fun: The German term for functor is
"der Funktor".
"Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
Best regards
Johannes
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* Re: Categories and functors, Funktor
2019-07-19 11:32 Categories and functors, Funktor Johannes Huebschmann
@ 2019-07-19 18:45 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2019-07-19 19:11 ` Urs Schreiber
2019-07-19 21:00 ` Albert Georg Passegger
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From: Michael Barr, Prof. @ 2019-07-19 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: categories@mta.ca list
This reminds me of a story Kleisli told me once about an American coming to lecture at Fribourg and he gave it in French. But he kept talking about "la foncteur". At the end of the lecture, Heinrich gently told him that, in that case, it should be "la foncteur".
Michael
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From: Johannes Huebschmann <johannes.huebschmann@univ-lille.fr>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 7:32:41 AM
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Dear All
For fun: The German term for functor is
"der Funktor".
"Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
Best regards
Johannes
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* Re: Categories and functors, Funktor
2019-07-19 11:32 Categories and functors, Funktor Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-19 18:45 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
@ 2019-07-19 19:11 ` Urs Schreiber
2019-07-19 21:00 ` Albert Georg Passegger
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From: Urs Schreiber @ 2019-07-19 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Huebschmann; +Cc: categories@mta.ca list
> For fun: The German term for functor is
>
> "der Funktor".
>
> "Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
If you allow compound nouns then
"der Funktor" translates to the fool who operates the remote control.
"Der Funktor bedient das Funktor.":
The remote control fool operates the remote control gate
What a Teekesselchen!
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* Re: Categories and functors, Funktor
2019-07-19 11:32 Categories and functors, Funktor Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-19 18:45 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2019-07-19 19:11 ` Urs Schreiber
@ 2019-07-19 21:00 ` Albert Georg Passegger
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From: Albert Georg Passegger @ 2019-07-19 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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A while ago there was a post in the n-Category Caf?? with a nice picture
on this:
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/01/vorsicht_funktor.html
"Caution! Funktor! [meaning: remote control gate] Keep 2 m back."
Definitely a picture to be shown in an introductory lecture on category
theory (well, maybe not...)
Best regards,
Albert
Am 19.07.2019 13:32, schrieb Johannes Huebschmann:
> Dear All
>
> For fun: The German term for functor is
>
> "der Funktor".
>
> "Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
>
> Best regards
>
> Johannes
>
>
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