Colin McLarty

Colin McLarty
Figure 1. Colin McLarty is a researcher in categories and toposes.

Colin McLarty is a logician whose publications have ranged widely in philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, as well as in the history of science and of mathematics.

Contents

Research

McLarty's Elementary Categories and Elementary Toposes describes category theory and topos theory at an elementary level.[1]

He has written papers about Saunders Mac Lane, one of the founders of category theory.

He is a member of the Grothendieck Circle, which provides on-line and open access to many writings about the mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck, whose category-theoretic genius revolutionized Banach-space theory and algebraic geometry and whose life has fascinated many biographers and mathematical scientists.[2]

McLarty has also written about the German algebraist, Emma Noether, who was a Jewish woman, and her involvement with German political history.[3]

Positions

At Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Colin McLarty is the Truman P. Handy Professor of Philosophy and the Chair of the Philosophy Department.

At CWRU, he is also a professor of mathematics.

McLarty is a member of the faculty of the CWRU program in women's and gender studies.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ *Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes.
  2. ^ website of the Grothendieck Circle.
  3. ^ Journal History of Mathematics.
  4. ^ Website at CWRU.

Bibliography

  • Colin McLarty, The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory, Brit. J. Phil. Sci, 41 (1990) p 355.
  • Colin McLarty, 'Emmy Noether’s ‘Set Theoretic’ Topology: From Dedekind to the rise of functors' in The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in history and philosophy (edited by Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós), Oxford University Press (2006) p. 211–35.

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