As a digression from our usual fare on the n n -Café, here’s one of my favorites, about an early theory of the Solar System, ...

The Eighth International Conference on Applied Category Theory ( https://easychair.org/cfp/ACT2025) will take place at the University of Florida on June 2-6, 2025. The conference will be preceded by ...

May 15, 2010 In “week298” of This Week’s Finds, learn about finite subgroups of the unit quaternions, finite subloops of the unit octonions, Lie n-superalgebras built using division algebras, and Duff ...

Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

Nov 1, 2022 John Baez is giving a talk on categories and epidemiology on Wednesday November 2nd, viewale online at noon UTC. A Categorical Understanding of the Proof of Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein? Dec ...

Apr 7, 2015 You can join a workshop on entropy and information in biological systems, virtually, by watching the streaming video.

Previously: Part 8. Next: Part 10. It’s the penultimate week of the course, and up until now we’ve abstained from using the axiom of choice. But this week we gorged on it. The section I most enjoyed ...

every family of well ordered sets has a least member — informally, “the well ordered sets are well ordered”; ...

for all infinite sets X X and Y Y. Proving this required most of the concepts and results from the second half of the course: well ordered sets, the Cantor–Bernstein theorem, the Hartogs theorem, Zorn ...

Hello [email protected]. So nice of you to stop by. I'm a member of the Theory Group here at UT. I've been at UT since September 1994. Before coming here, I was an Assistant Professor in the theory ...

Nov 22, 2024 The final chapter of this course on secretly-categorical set theory. Axiomatic Set Theory 9: The Axiom of Choice Nov 15, 2024 The penultimate week of this axiomatic set theory course, ...