Timeline for A question in category theory
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| Jan 14, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | Are you talking about twins now? | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 18:01 | comment | added | Christopher King | @AndrejBauer Except that in any theory ever, two isomorphic objects are essentially the same. | |
| May 10, 2013 at 0:58 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | ...or a European swallow. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 15:05 | comment | added | Tim Porter | ... and not an Argentinian racing pigeon! | |
| May 9, 2013 at 14:36 | history | edited | jmc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2013 at 13:37 | comment | added | Tom Leinster | Another apposite phrase: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. What the proof of the Yoneda lemma reveals is that the best judge of whether something's a duck is a duck. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 13:00 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2013 at 10:09 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | The modern version is: tell me who your Facebook friends are and I will tell you not only who you are, but also how you use your credit cards. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 9:34 | comment | added | jmc | Probably the slogan should be "tell me how you relate to others, and I will tell you who you are", but I went for a pretty concordant translation of the Dutch saying. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 7:01 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | Let's be honest here: category theorists are their own friends, which is why the slogan works. | |
| May 9, 2013 at 6:54 | vote | accept | Stef | ||
| May 9, 2013 at 6:45 | history | answered | jmc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |