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> this looks to be more concerned with applications towards number theory (specifically cohen-lenstra heuristics) rather than adding to the category theory lite
by impendia 4y ago
> this looks to be more concerned with applications towards number theory (specifically cohen-lenstra heuristics) rather than adding to the category theory literature.
(I'm a specialist in this area of number theory)
This is correct. The word "category" is being used in its colloquial English sense; this is not work on category theory.
[Edit: I'm mistaken in the above point; see comment below]
- eastWestMath 4y agoThe paper is absolutely a construction on categories.
- impendia 4y agoOkay, looking at the paper more carefully (I'd just looked at the article before, and was arguing from my knowledge of the field more generally), I take it back -- there is definitely some formal category theory here.
- hgsgm 4y agoIt's weird. It definitely reads like the Quanta author either didn't know what a mathematical category is, or didn't think it merited explanation, despite explaining simpler things in excruciating detail in the article.