Precursors Of Category Theory • 1
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https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/25/precursors-of-category-theory-1-a/
All,
A few years ago I began a sketch on the “Precursors of Category Theory”,
tracing the continuities of the category concept from Aristotle, to Kant
and Peirce, through Hilbert and Ackermann, to contemporary mathematical
practice. My notes on the project are still very rough and incomplete
but I find myself returning to them from time to time.
Preamble —
❝Now the discovery of ideas as general as these is chiefly the
willingness to make a brash or speculative abstraction, in this
case supported by the pleasure of purloining words from the
philosophers: “Category” from Aristotle and Kant, “Functor”
from Carnap (“Logische Syntax der Sprache”), and “natural
transformation” from then current informal parlance.❞
— Saunders Mac Lane • “Categories for the Working Mathematician”
Resources —
Precursors Of Category Theory
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Precursors_Of_Category_Theory
Propositions As Types Analogy
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Propositions_As_Types_Analogy
Survey of Precursors Of Category Theory
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https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/05/24/survey-of-precursors-of-category-…
Regards,
Jon
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