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Posted by Russell Standish on Feb 09, 2007; 4:08pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Category-theory-Wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-tp523500p523508.html

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:48:08PM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:

> We've knocked around the term Category Theory a bit lately, so I  
> started looking into it a bit.  This seems to be a reasonable  
> starting place:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory
>
> Has anyone used this in complexity science work?  Or semantic web  
> work?  Or anything else?  :)
>
> I know Amazon turns up Russell Standish's book first in a search for  
> category theory!
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
> "You can do Anything, but not Everything!"
>

What?

Some say law is an ass. Does this mean Amazon search is an ass? I
mention category theory only briefly as a more general theory than set
theory, but my work is entirely based on set theory. It would not be
much help to anyone wanting to understand CT.

Cheers

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