Re: a little meditation on literature and math

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 01:24:32 MST


> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0103/24/spectrum/spectrum2.html

³Fiction's mythemes, mathematics's vectors and tensors, serve alike to
direct us in constructing stories adequate to the unspeakable richness and
amplitude of the world² wrote Damien Broderick.

To broaden our horizons (and also to break the old rules of set theory)
there¹s nothing better than the Topos theory, wrote John Baez.
Topos theory combines logic with geometry, and also with topology.
The new foundations? Have a look ŠŠ

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/topos.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week68.html

and also
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
http://www.mmsysgrp.com/stefanik.htm
http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/seminar/Landry.html



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