19 Jan
2000
19 Jan
'00
4:03 p.m.
Vaughan writes: The ring of integers mod 3 is a one-object monoidal category in the usual way, with multiplication as composition and addition as the monoid. A monoid -- as does any functor on two variables -- has to carry identity maps into identity maps. If composition is multiplication then 1 is the identity map. But if * is addition then 1*1 ...