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Stream: learning: questions

Topic: Grassmann as a precursor of CT


view this post on Zulip Peiyuan Zhu (Nov 09 2022 at 17:21):

I'm baffled

view this post on Zulip Peiyuan Zhu (Nov 09 2022 at 17:21):

I was reading this paper in the morning https://philarchive.org/archive/GAROTN

view this post on Zulip Peiyuan Zhu (Nov 09 2022 at 17:23):

How to understand William Lawvere's comment that Grassmann's work being a precursor to category theory?

view this post on Zulip Notification Bot (Nov 10 2022 at 10:40):

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view this post on Zulip Matteo Capucci (he/him) (Nov 10 2022 at 10:40):

@Peiyuan Zhu since you changed topic, I started a new topic (for the future: is the button on the bottom right of the screen)

view this post on Zulip Peiyuan Zhu (Nov 10 2022 at 14:49):

I see so I won’t need to worry about creating too much complexity for the stream

view this post on Zulip Joe Moeller (Nov 10 2022 at 15:28):

The paper you pointed to cites a paper by Lawvere called "Grassman's dialectics and category theory". I don't know that the best way to understand Lawvere's thoughts is to read his writing, but it's certainly a place to start. You can find Lawvere's collected works here: https://github.com/mattearnshaw/lawvere.