Background
Lawvere, F. William was born on February 9, 1937 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Son of Francis William and Margaret Delight (Moorman) Lawvere.
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In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics, Second Edition, introduces the concept of 'category' for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to both beginning students and general readers, and to practicing mathematical scientists. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by examples in these categories.
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The idea of a "category"--a sort of mathematical universe--has brought about a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Written by two of the best-known names in categorical logic, Conceptual Mathematics is the first book to apply categories to the most elementary mathematics. It thus serves two purposes: first, to provide a key to mathematics for the general reader or beginning student; and second, to furnish an easy introduction to categories for computer scientists, logicians, physicists, and linguists who want to gain some familiarity with the categorical method without initially committing themselves to extended study.
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Lawvere, F. William was born on February 9, 1937 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Son of Francis William and Margaret Delight (Moorman) Lawvere.
Bachelor, Indiana U., 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1963.
Assistant professor, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1963-1964; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1966-1967; associate professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 1967-1968; Killam professor, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1969-1971; professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1974. Visiting professor various foreign universities, 1964-1988.
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Member American Mathematics Society, Canadian Math Society, Unione Matematica Italiana.
Married Fatima Yvonne Fenaroli, September 9, 1966. Children: Marco, John T., Philip, Danilo, Silvana.