Newsgroups: sci.physics.research
From: t...@ugcs.caltech.edu (Toby Bartels)
Date: 1998/11/13
Subject: Just Categories now (Was: Symplectic forms and Categories)
John Baez <b...@galaxy.ucr.edu> wrote parenthetically:
>I will Ooh, let me guess! >leave it to James Dolan to explain the technical distinction between >"extra properties", "extra structure", and "extra stuff" - there is >a nice category-theoretic way of making this precise. Given a functor U: C -> D, interpret U as a forgetful functor. For example, the forgetful functor Groups -> Sets -- Toby You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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