Sorry for another post that's all about me, but I received a pleasant surprise today. The Association of American Publishers just gave out their annual PROSE awards. The awards recognize excellence in scholarly publishing in some forty categories. One of those categories is “Popular Science and Mathematics.” The winner in that category? None other than Taking Sudoku Seriously! Yay!
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Let's talk a bit about functors. Functors are fun!
What's a functor? I already gave the short definition: a structure-preserving mapping between categories. Let's be a bit more formal. What does the structure-preserving property mean?
By now, we've seen the simple algebraic monoid, which is essentially an
A more than unusually obscure headline perhaps. Here's the link. I noticed, because my watchlist contained a pile of changes like:
The thing that I think is most interesting about category theory is that what it's really fundamentally about is structure. The abstractions of category theory let you talk about structures in an elegant way; and category diagrams let you illustrate structures in a simple visual way.
Congratulations, and well deserved. And it's your blog mate, you're entitled to self promotion (indeed, the cynical amongst us may even say that's the point of blogs).
Yup. I'm happy for you, even if I hardly know the words to express it.
Congrats!
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Congratulations!!