I wished to make the point that Tao uses categorical ideas and perspectives freely. It would've been better if I'd referred to the specific postings in which he does so ... http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/grothendiecks-definition-of-a-group... http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/the-free-nilpotent-group/ These postings aren't about themselves about category theory, but in them he exhibits no inhibitions in using categorical language. Regards, Mark Weber On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Scott Morrison <scott@tqft.net> wrote:
Dear Mark,
this is unfortunately a bad example. If you click through any of the results for "category" <http://terrytao.wordpress.com/?s=category> on Terry's page, you'll see that in nearly all cases, the only use of the word "category" is in "n-Category Cafe", which appears in the sidebar of every page, amongst the links to other blogs.
best, Scott Morrison
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