Category theory and its applications

✍ Scribed by Michael Barr; Ieke Moerdijk; Myles Tierney

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 23 KB
• Volume: 154
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4049
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-4049(00)00029-3

✦ Synopsis

When the idea ÿrst arose of organizing a special session on category theory at the September 26-28, 1997 AMS meeting in Montreal, it seemed immediately appropriate to dedicate it to Bill Lawvere as a token of our esteem on his 60th birthday. Certainly, few people have in uenced category theory, as well as its applications to logic and other mathematical sciences, to the extent that Bill has. Even a brief mention of some of the areas of his most decisive contributions covers many of the highlights of category theory since his thesis at Columbia in 1963. Algebraic theories, axioms for the category of categories, axioms for the category of sets, elementary topos theory, synthetic di erential geometry, continuum mechanics, mathematical education, history and philosophy of mathematics. Thus, the editors were pleased to wish him well on this birthday, and thank him for many stimulating years of mathematics and friendship. We eagerly await his future insights.