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From: Michael Shulman <shulman@math.uchicago.edu>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re:  distributors
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:31:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3f821000511181131k3e1d24a9hfd5d6687dc9f2de7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3f821000511161942rc6370e1s31adfb08295dc5b1@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to everyone who replied to my email.  The consensus from people
who claim to know (although there were some plausible guesses) is that
the name is by analogy with "distributions" from functional analysis,
which are "generalized functions."  Thus changing "ion" to "or" we get
that "distributors" are "generalized functors."

On 11/16/05, Michael Shulman <shulman@math.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me the motivation for the use of the term
> "distributors" as a synonym for profunctors/bimodules?  Is there
> something being distributed?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>




      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18 19:31 UTC|newest]

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2005-11-17  3:42 distributors Michael Shulman
2005-11-18 19:31 ` Michael Shulman [this message]

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