Re: Selling Rosen to the University

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

JohnK,

 

I don't have any first-hand experience with university environments, so I am not sure how Category Theory might be received - if it would seem either onerous or useful to them. But it sounds like it would make alot of sense with respect to the informatics aspect.

 

I've not had good luck finding well-written introductory books on Category Theory. On my (recently enlarged!) Web Resources page (www.panmere.com/webresources.htm), I have links to a couple of free download texts, but they are still somewhat difficult - at least for me.  On the Book List page, Conceptual Mathematics is a somewhat reasonable introductory text (if you can get past the contrived imaginary Socratic dialogs with students that are supposed to  helpful).

 

Regards,

Tim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:***On Behalf Of John Kineman
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:35 PM
To: ***
Subject: Re: Selling Rosen to the University

Tim,

thanks. Yes, that was my thought as well. I wrote up a flier with the modeling relation as the central paradigm. From there, I also wonder if introducing category theory (to myself as well) might be a good idea, as this would seem to intersect the informatics fields.

John