Tuesday December 3, 2002

From the Erlangen Program
to Category Theory

See the following, apparently all by Jean-Pierre Marquis, Département de Philosophie, Université de Montréal:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Klein’s Erlangen program
• Chapter 2: Eilenberg & Mac Lane’s methodological extension
• Chapter 3: Basic principles of category theory

See also the following by Marquis:

• Category Theory (article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), and
•  Categories, Sets, and the Nature of Mathematical Entities (abstract)