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Soham Chowdhury
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Why did Voevodsky consider categories "posets in the next dimension", and groupoids the correct generalisation of sets?
Thanks for clearing that up! One of the rare cases where something is less subtle than I thought it was.
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Why did Voevodsky consider categories "posets in the next dimension", and groupoids the correct generalisation of sets?
Incidentally, regarding the disclaimer: I was (quite informally) familiar with type theory (from occasionally dabbling in Agda and implementing type systems in Haskell) before I ever started learning maths, and your answer was quite readable. :)
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Why did Voevodsky consider categories "posets in the next dimension", and groupoids the correct generalisation of sets?
+1, this is a great answer from the "other side" and made the similarities a little clearer!
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Why did Voevodsky consider categories "posets in the next dimension", and groupoids the correct generalisation of sets?
Seconded. I'd never thought of categories as "groupoids with structure" before, and "To some extent the set of object and of arrows with the appropriate structure is a "presentation" of your category." was a bit of an aha-moment (a breakthrough, if you will!) for me. :)
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Why did Voevodsky consider categories "posets in the next dimension", and groupoids the correct generalisation of sets?
I had no idea what to tag this with; appropriate retagging would be appreciated. I'm not sure if this is a valid soft-question.
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If a set contains all its proper transitive subsets as members, do its members as well?
@AndrésE.Caicedo ah, my apologies. Thank you for reverting the edit.
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Introductory text on Riemannian geometry
@TheMathemagician it would be nice if you could emphasise your words *like this* rather than shouting. :)
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Favorite popular math book
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