Subject: categories: Re: pots and kettles

From: jim stasheff <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:03:39 -0500

"generalised abstract nonsense"
I'm pretty sure it was current while I was a grad student at princeton
1956-58

it wasn't necessarily perjorative

category theory certainly applies marvelously to knot theory

but Yetter should wade in on that aspect

jim

Paul Taylor wrote:
>
> I wonder when the phrases "generalised abstract nonsense" and "empty set
> theory" came into circulation?   I seem to remember hearing them when I was
> an undergraduate.
>