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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011

    New entry history of mathematics and a couple of minor changes at philosophy.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011

    I have cross-linked this with the floating Mathematics-TOC.

    Also I changed your

    On the nLab we are mostly interested in…

    into

    On the nLabe we are maybe currently mostly intererested in…

    Because: who knows what the nnLab will contain in a year from now. Or in two years. Or in 10.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011

    I added the foundations of mathematics to the topic list (since it seemed the easiest way to cover my interests that weren’t included) and did some grammar edits.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2011

    If something will change in ten years we will change the titles and so on accordingly. Why to make it vague and virtual now ? (as a general rule)

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2015

    I added a remarkable reference

    • Jean-Pierre Marquis, Gonzalo E. Reyes, The history of categorical logic 1963–1977, 111 pp. pdf
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    • CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2021
    • (edited Feb 20th 2021)

    Came across this page when doing some tidying up. Tweaked the introductory section to avoid mentioning areas of the interest of the nLab, which I think is good to avoid in general (amongst other things, I agree with Urs’s comments 10 years ago that it can become dated).

    diff, v16, current

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2022
    • B. L. van der Waerden, Geometry and algebra in ancient civilizations, Springer 1983 gBooks

    and few corrected or added links within nnLab including recent

    diff, v17, current

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2024
    • Israel Kleiner, From numbers to rings: The early history of ring theory, Elem. Math. 53 (1998) 18–35 pdf

    diff, v18, current

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