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| | | | | This will be a series of self-contained lectures on the philosophy of mathematics, given at Oxford University in Michaelmas term 2019. We will be meeting in the Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room at | |
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inquiryintoinquiry.com
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| | | | | Introduction The praeclarum theorema, or splendid theorem, is a theorem of propositional calculus noted and named by G.W.Leibniz, who stated and proved it in the following manner. If a is b and d is c, then ad will be bc. This is a fine theorem, which is proved in this way: a is b, therefore... | |
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www.jeremykun.com
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| | | Previously in this series we've seen the definition of a category and a bunch of examples, basic properties of morphisms, and a first look at how to represent categories as types in ML. In this post we'll expand these ideas and introduce the notion of a universal property. We'll see examples from mathematics and write some programs which simultaneously prove certain objects have universal properties and construct the morphisms involved. | ||