Re: Precursors of Category Theory

Post   : Precursors of Category Theory : 1
URL    : http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/12/20/precursors-of-category-theory-1/
Posted : December 20, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Author : Jon Awbrey

Preamble
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A clue to the forerunners of category theory is supplied by this recap from Saunders Mac Lane:

[[ Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly the willingness to make a brash or
speculative abstraction, in this case supported by the pleasure of purloining words from the
philosophers:  “Category” from Aristotle and Kant, “Functor” from Carnap (''Logische Syntax der
Sprache''), and “natural transformation” from then current informal parlance. ]]

— Saunders Mac Lane, ''Categories for the Working Mathematician'', 29–30.

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