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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Peano and the commerce of ideas and representatio
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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.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


