Re: category theory

Cliff Joslyn (cjoslyn@BINGSUNS.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU)
Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:38:07 -0400


In-Reply-To: <199507202005.QAA01521@bingnfs1.cc.binghamton.edu> from "Jeff Prideaux" at Jul 20, 95 02:43:12 pm

> I just wasnted to say that I have not been having private e-mail
> conversations about category theory...but I would welcome re-
> establishing category theory as a subject of interest for the PCP
> participants.

It's amazing sometimes how chaotic my work life is. Here I'm replying
to a post from last month about a conversation from months even before
that.

Jeff and I had reached a point where we were pulling apart some of the
basic diagrams in Rosen's Life Itself in order to more fully examine
the question "what's at stake in Rosen's use of category theory?" We
were hampered by a lack of diagramming in ASCII, among other
things. It is still very much on my mind, although I find it difficult
to justify time for it out of my schedule.

Patience, I suppose, is called for!

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