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https://mathoverflow.net/questions/171809/building-a-product-of-two-categories 

It was a pretty legit question, but Doctor Wofsey says it's off-topic, and all categories are based on sets; seems like, in his view all theories are based on sets.

So, what should we do with a bunch of idiots pretending to be mathematicians? I don't know. I'm not one. But neither are they.

Reasked.

Date: 2018-06-13 07:37 pm (UTC)
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Наверное, Бурбаки по-прежнему владеют умами части математиков.

Date: 2018-06-13 08:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Я, конечно, скажу сейчас ересь, но тут та же самая ошибка, что и с "математическими основами объектно-ориентированного подхода".

Теория какой угодно фигни не может существовать сама по себе. Человек должен её понять и как-то с ней оперировать. А операции с множествами - это то, на чём основана работа мозга. Так что, теория множеств, это не столько основа, сколько мостик к голове.

Я бы даже сказал, нечётких множеств, когда человек понимает, что два нечта имеют что-то общее, но объяснить что именно, не может ;-)

Date: 2018-06-13 08:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Просто вам в юности вдолбили,

Вот не надо этих беспочвенных обвинений. Как работает мозг я знаю. Там и морфология этому способствует. И не надо спорить с тем, что я не писал.

Насчёт же математики. Можно объяснить категории не привлекая теорию множеств. Но много ли человек это поймут? Я уж не говорю о том, чтобы использовать.

Date: 2018-06-13 09:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Логику объясняют же, не привлекая теорию множеств.

Объяснение логики не базируют на теории множеств. Слово "привлекают" очень эластично и тут можно поговорить о применении свойств множеств. Но я тут этого делать не буду.

Аналогично.

Похоже, это не канонический подход. По крайней мере всё, что я видел, содержит объяснения или примеры с множествами. (Может быть, в этом причина того, что вокруг разброд и шатания)

как древние греки манипулировали геометрией без всяких множеств.

Как они отличали треугольник от квадрата?

Date: 2018-06-13 09:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Ну замечательно. Разбили на множества по количеству углов.

Date: 2018-06-14 06:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Не-а. Это не про то.

Наводящий вопрос. Что появляется раньше: интуитивное понимание, вербально-графическое выражение предположения или построение с помощью доказательства?

Date: 2018-06-14 02:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Что-то такое я и предполагал. Ладно, когда-нибудь потом попытаюсь объяснить. Всё равно, в планах стоит.

Date: 2018-06-14 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
Why sets and not categories? ;-)

Date: 2018-06-14 06:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Проще.

Date: 2018-06-14 06:52 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
Greeks are more likely to use categories :) (albeit in a different meaning)

Date: 2018-06-14 08:14 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
κατηγορία

Did they have a zero? I don't think so. There were religious battles about that, if I recall well.

Then they may have difficulty thinking of an empty Set, too. There may have been no way to describe the intersection of the "set" of squares and the "set" of triangles.

Did they have functions between "sets" of squares and triangles? Without functions talking about "sets" is not entirely meaningful.

You could still categorize things - "all things with three angles are triangles", but does that make them "a set of triangles"?

You can still use universal propositions - "all triangles define a 3-d plane", but does that necessitate "a set of triangles" to exist as a concept?

Date: 2018-06-14 08:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
1. You think as a modern mathematician. This is not the correct base.

2. What did they do in cases such as X - V - II - III ?

Date: 2018-06-14 12:49 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
1. of course, not. I think like a modern student of mathematics. :)

But point taken, I do come from modern understanding of what a set theory must have. On the other hand, if we discard modern understanding, it is difficult to see why some other criterion would not be arbitrary.

2. NaN. As far as I recall, ancient Europeans did not consider zero as a number, and would write "nothing". I can't remember when ancient Asians (won't even go into Persia vs India) decided that zero is a number, nevertheless, it wasn't immediately obvious to them. Zeros, bottoms, empty sets are not easy to understand.

Date: 2018-06-14 02:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Слово "nulla" ни чем не хуже комбинации "XXI". Впрочем, я объяснять не буду. Мне влом на английский переходить. Он переводит меня в другой режим.

Date: 2018-06-14 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
It's noticeable when sexagesimal system has signs for all numbers 1..59, but not 0.

It's noticeable when a positional system has a sign for 0 for a missing place-value (like, to mark zero units in 10), but does not use it for zero.

Date: 2018-06-13 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
Do many people who studied set theory understand functions ∅→A?

Date: 2018-06-13 09:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vit_r
Where is the problem? :-/

Date: 2018-06-14 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sassa_nf
Like, what does it do?

Date: 2018-06-13 08:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] timelets
MacLane, as well as probably any other category book, does not hesitate to define a product of two categories as a category consisting of pairs of objects, etc.

Now my question is: what law of nature or logic or anything allows to create such pairs?


I'd say that unlike in e.g. physics, in math you can define concepts into existence. Such concepts are abstract constructs; they don't have to follow from any law of nature.

Date: 2018-06-13 08:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] timelets
My short answer would be longer: N/A

Date: 2018-06-13 09:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bytebuster
Based on my personal (subjective and therefore wrong) impression, I would say that large SE sites like Math.SE, Ask Ubutnu, English.SE, and several others are very tough places to get your posts answered, leave alone the rep points.
Look, ~30k views, only 2 votes and 2 barely adequate answers.
Stack Overflow itself is a much better place since the entire community is split into platform-specific fractions.

Date: 2018-06-14 12:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] epimorphisms_split
> and all categories are based on sets

For a suitable definition of "set".

Can't vouch for any category theory book, but MacLane does operate within the framework of a set theory. Which specific set theory? I don't know if it has a name, but it is somewhat reasonably described in section 6 "Foundations" of chapter I.
Edited Date: 2018-06-14 01:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-06-14 03:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] epimorphisms_split
Sure one can do CT without any underlying foundation, but why would MacLane want to do that? Even today. It doesn't look like his goal was developing new foundations or anything like that.
Edited Date: 2018-06-14 03:31 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-06-15 11:54 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] epimorphisms_split
I don't know either. Never was that interested in foundations.

Date: 2018-06-14 02:09 pm (UTC)
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Вот я тоже - придумал лямбда-исчисление с явной альфа-редукцией (переименовывающей связанную переменную) и назвал его "лямбда-альфа". И вот они недовольны! Сами же называют свои работы "основания математики 21-го века"

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