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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJun 13th 2018

I toiuched the formatting and the hyperlinking of the paragraphs on compatibility of limits with other universal constructions.

Merged the previous tiny subsections on this to a single one, now Compatibility with universal constructions.

added the hyperlink to the stand-alone entry adjoints preserve (co-)limits.

Will create an analogous stand-alone entry for limits commute with limits.

1. Linked “classifying space” page.

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• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorAlec Rhea
• CommentTimeApr 12th 2019

cleaned up definition for arbitrary categories

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• CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
• CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2021

Redirect: limit functor.

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• CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
• CommentTimeMar 29th 2021

Added the original reference that defined limits. Truly bizarre that after 75 revisions this article does not have a single reference.

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• CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
• CommentTimeMar 30th 2021
• (edited Mar 30th 2021)

I find that paper of Kan amazing. Out of the blue, these fundamental and extraordinarily deep concepts of category theory are presented clearly as if on a tablet handed down by a God. I think that there must have been some background to the paper; in places, Kan’s wording suggests to me that the terminology might not be his (perhaps Eilenberg’s?). Thus the concepts may have to some extent have been extant. It would be a great job for a historian of mathematics to try to understand where the ideas came from.

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