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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: What is a knot?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.055104.25395@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov7.212557.24399@galois.mit.edu> <COLUMBUS.92Nov9100248@strident.think.com> <1992Nov10.033122.10598@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:51:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.033122.10598@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >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.
-
- I couldn't tie my shoe-laces until the back-and-forth argument was
- explained to me. :-)
-
- Two trivia concerning this post: (i) A-->B *is* a concrete category
- (one from which there exists a faithful functor to Set); (ii) (rather
- more work) it is the only category with that many or fewer arrows
- containing such a noniso. (The one-object case is the hard part.)
- --
- Vaughan Pratt
-