Today I heard from David Benson that Jack Morava died yesterday. This comes as such a huge shock that I can’t help but hope Benson was somehow misinformed. Morava has been posting comments to the ...

Quick question. Classically the harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian is often written 1 2 ( p 2 + q 2), while quantum mechanically it gets some extra ‘ground state energy’ making the Hamiltonian ...

Did you know that Lawvere did classified work on arms control in the 1960s, back when he was writing his thesis? You can read more here: Yes, that’s right. For technical reasons the n-Category Café ...

• a 2-rig over a field k is a Cauchy complete k -linear symmetric monoidal category is a line object if there’s an object y with x ⊗ y ≅ I. is a bosonic line object if it is a line object and the ...

I’d like to share here a personal project which might be of interest to the readers of this blog: the Clowder Project. Clowder is a wiki and reference work for category theory built using the same ...

guest post by Emily de Oliveira Santos I’d like to share here a personal project which might be of interest to the readers of this blog: the Clowder Project. Clowder is a wiki and reference work for ...

Announcing the Clowder Project: a wiki and reference work for category theory built using the same general infrastructure and tag system of the Stacks Project.

Why Mathematics is Boring I don’t really think mathematics is boring. I hope you don’t either. But I can’t count the number of times I’ve launched into reading a math paper, dewy-eyed and eager to ...

The discussion on Tom’s recent post about ETCS, and the subsequent followup blog post of Francois, have convinced me that it’s time to write a new introductory blog post about type theory. So if ...