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Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
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Mathematician, math.LO/math.CT, currently Associate Professor (Universitetslektor) at Stockholm University. Mainly working in categorical logic, especially homotopy type theory and higher categories.

Previously worked at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

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Why should we believe in the axiom of regularity?
Sep 29, 2015
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Are dagger categories truly evil?
Oct 5, 2015
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Interesting examples of vacuous / void entities
Nov 14, 2010
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Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?
Dec 2, 2010
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Why do people say Gödel's sentence is true when it is true in some models but false in others?
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Non-examples of model structures, that fail for subtle/surprising reasons?
May 2, 2010
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Proofs where higher dimension or cardinality actually enabled much simpler proof?
May 22, 2020
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Is a vector space naturally isomorphic to its dual?
Nov 4, 2019
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Are there categories whose internal hom is somewhat 'exotic'?
Aug 18, 2019
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What "metatheory" did early set theory/logic researchers use to prove semantic results?
Apr 15, 2018
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