Re: A well kept secret

Michael Barr wrote:

There are several comments I could make to this posting, but I will confine myself to two. First, I was around all through the 70s (and most of the 60s) and I have no idea what categorists did to earn the opprobrium described below.

I have my suspicions as to what categorists did to earn the opprobrium described below. The high density of new vocabulary in many research papers. Not enough published at the level of Saunders Cats for teh Working mathematician Too many papers doing category theory for its own sake apologies ahead of time to anyone whose ox is being gored jim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]