12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
6:17 p.m.
noted
For those who like compliments: the triples website has had (for a while now) a link to a lecture by Voevodsky given at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2002, in which he describes "categories [as] one of the most important ideas of 20th century mathematics". The video of the talk may be found at
http://claymath.msri.org/voevodsky2002.mov
(the compliment isn't the only reason for watching!).
It is a terrific lecture. The line "I think that at the heart of 20th century mathematics lies one particular notion and that is the notion of a category" occurs at minute 16. best, Colin