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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Peano and the commerce of ideas and representatio
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chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>In article <556@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:

>>There was an enjoyable book published many years ago titled "Arithmetic
>>Made Complicated" (or something similar), which took a category- theoretic
>>view of "simple" arithmetic, introducing such concepts as universal
>>objects and commutative diagrams.

>_Mathematics Made Difficult_, by Carl E. Linderholm; Wolfe (London), 1971.
>One of the funniest books in existence.

Thanks, Dave. I found it in a library and have never been able to buy it.
Perhaps I should have stolen it when I had the chance. Agreed, for a
modern mathematician, one of the funniest books in existence, but it also
provided one of the most understandable introductions to category theory
I've ever seen. (It's not accidental that we used to refer to CT as
Abstract Nonsense.) Of course, I'm biased, since I learned real analysis
from Errett Bishop.

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com


