Re: Intro

Posted by Tom Johnson on Aug 12, 2008; 2:30am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Intro-tp687216p687234.html

Welcome, John.  I hope you can visit Santa Fe and give us a rich briefing on category theory.

All the best,
Tom Johnson

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:11 PM, John F. Kennison <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

My name is John Kennison and I am glad to be welcomed to the Friam group. I am a retired Math professor and have been a friend and colleague of Nick Thompson's for many years. My field is category theory and I am interested in all kinds of applications of categories to other areas of math, including dynamical systems. I have been reading Rosen's "Life Itself" which seems half-baked, pretentious and badly written, but which also seems to be asking some deep and important questions. So I enjoy trying to puzzle my way through it.

I like listening to discussions about the nature of math. While I have practical experience as a mathematician and am not afraid to voice my opinions, I have done almost no philosophical  reading on this subject.

---John

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