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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeNov 17th 2010
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexpolsihed the defnition at [[Segal category]] slightly and added a remark on how composition here is an [[infinity-anafunctor]].

   polsihed the defnition at Segal category slightly and added a remark on how composition here is an infinity-anafunctor.

2. • CommentRowNumber2.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeMar 13th 2012
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexhave touched _[[Segal category]]_ again, expanding _Idea_ and _Definition_ a little more and adding a stubby _Properties_-section.

   have touched Segal category again, expanding Idea and Definition a little more and adding a stubby Properties-section.

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   • CommentAuthornLab edit announcer
   • CommentTimeAug 12th 2023
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   Format: MarkdownItexCorrected reference to Dwyer/Kan/Smith paper. the name *Segal category* was *not* introduced in that paper. Jonas Frey <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Segal+category/30">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Segal+category/30">v30</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Segal+category">current</a>

   Corrected reference to Dwyer/Kan/Smith paper. the name Segal category was not introduced in that paper.

   Jonas Frey

   diff, v30, current

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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeAug 12th 2023
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexThanks. (The claim originated with [revision 6](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Segal+category/6).) So I have moved the item * [[André Hirschowitz]], [[Carlos Simpson]], *Les $n$-catégories de Segal*, §2 in: _Descente pour les $n$-champs (Descent for $n$-stacks)_ &lbrack;[arXiv:9807049](http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807049)&rbrack; up in the list into chronological order. Is this the origin of the terminology "Segal categories"? (It's remarkable that later authors use the term without citing where they got it from.) Also touched the wording around these bibitems and added more DOI-links, throughout. <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Segal+category/31">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Segal+category/31">v31</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Segal+category">current</a>

   Thanks.

   (The claim originated with revision 6.)

   So I have moved the item

   • André Hirschowitz, Carlos Simpson, Les $n$-catégories de Segal, §2 in: Descente pour les $n$-champs (Descent for $n$-stacks) [arXiv:9807049]

   up in the list into chronological order. Is this the origin of the terminology “Segal categories”? (It’s remarkable that later authors use the term without citing where they got it from.)

   Also touched the wording around these bibitems and added more DOI-links, throughout.

   diff, v31, current

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   • CommentAuthorzskoda
   • CommentTimeAug 15th 2023
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   Format: MarkdownItex4: very likely. Term Segal condition is more classical but this setup for higher categories has definitely been developed by the Nice school (Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis) of algebraic geometry whose seniors at the time were Simpson and Hirschowitz. But other pioneers of higher categories who compared approaches like Baez and Leinster could also possibly say about this history.

   4: very likely. Term Segal condition is more classical but this setup for higher categories has definitely been developed by the Nice school (Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis) of algebraic geometry whose seniors at the time were Simpson and Hirschowitz. But other pioneers of higher categories who compared approaches like Baez and Leinster could also possibly say about this history.