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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: What is a knot?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.033122.10598@galois.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
- References: <1992Nov7.212557.24399@galois.mit.edu> <COLUMBUS.92Nov9100248@strident.think.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 03:31:22 GMT
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- In article <COLUMBUS.92Nov9100248@strident.think.com> columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov7.212557.24399@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John
- >C. Baez) writes:
- >
- > Actually, it turns out to be very good to work with framed oriented links.
- > Then we have the marvelously erudite
- >
- > 5') Hom(0,0) in the free tortile tensor category generated by a single
- > object.
- >
- >Now that's more like it. (How come they didn't tell me about this at
- >Community Boating when I learned to tie a bowline?)
-
- Perhaps they weren't very well educated. Actually this is the sort of
- thing I hoped Pratt would bounce back with when I teased him about folks
- who can't tie their shoelaces until it is explained in
- category-theoretic terms.
-