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I’m interested in editing Mac Lane’s proof of the coherence theorem for monoidal categories, as I recently went through all the gory details myself and wrote it up. I was wondering if anybody has any thoughts on what should be left alone with regard to any future changes. Many people clearly put in a lot of work into the page, but it looks like people got busy and it hasn’t been updated in a while.
I think the first few paragraphs are fine, but I think the rest is a bit wordy, it could be more formal, and notation could be changed (very slightly) to be less clunky. I specifically want to make the current document more formal (e.g., saying “Definition: blah blah”), include some nice diagrams, change the notation (e.g., to avoid using double primes, to avoid denoting a monoidal category as B since I think the letter M pedagogically makes more sense), and complete the incomplete entries at the bottom. I’m not really sure if anyone would be against such changes, hence my inquiry.
Not at all, it is a good idea! If you are very unsure, you can post sections here for comments, but there is no problem with messing up the article, it can always be massaged back into shape if it gets a bit wobbly.
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