From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2297 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: re: Automata as Categories Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:45:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <16074.18059.966602.668242@merlin.cs.clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018556 3434 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:22:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Steve Stevenson , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Wed May 21 15:49:17 2003 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:49:17 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 19IYdQ-0006Hs-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 21 May 2003 15:48:20 -0300 In-Reply-To: <16074.18059.966602.668242@merlin.cs.clemson.edu> Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 47 Original-Lines: 42 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2297 Archived-At: At 11:15 -0400 2003/20/05, Steve Stevenson wrote: >I am interested to find an article or book that is a category- >theoretic redevelopment of "classical" automata. I'd like to find >something that graduate students could use if they had already had an >automata course and now would retrace that same development using >category-theoretic vocabulary and means. > >Thanks in advance... > >steve --- Hi Steve! In my opinion, you're looking for stuff on M-categories (M a Monoid) and you're searching under keywords like "action" --- initially left! There is good material in Barr & Wells 1999. (The 3rd edition) or better groundwork --- Lawvere and Rosebrugh 2003 [ though much of what you eventually need is in the exercises :) ] Micheal -- ... o O o O o ... USUK WAR ON UN 20030320+... USUK WAR PART II 20030501+... ... o O o O o ... --- M=EDche=E1l Mac an Airchinnigh 5 Parson's Street Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland mailto:micheal1@mac.com mailto:mmaa@eircom.net