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“The membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics.”

Saunders Mac Lane.

Seminar

Speaker:	John Christianidis (Professor, Department of Methodology, History and Theory of Science, UoA)
Title:	Hermeneutical problems in the history of Algebra
Date:	Friday, 12 Jan 2001
Time:	18:00-19:00

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