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Functional programming and category theory tweets from @JohnDCook

Guide to commutative diagram packages for LaTeX jmilne.org/not/CDGuide.ht…


Coq proof assistant coq.inria.fr


Saunders Mac Lane said that he invented category theory to make precise what it means for a construction to be 'natural.'


Initial objects and final objects johndcook.com/blog/initial-f…


You can think of Hom(X, A) as 'A as viewed from X.' By the Yoneda lemma, two objects are the same if they look the same from all viewpoints.


Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340


“The notion of stacks came up in the sixties. But to swallow schemes was already enough for one generation of mathematicians.” — Gerd Faltings


Cartesian Closed Categories (CCCs) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian…


The calculus of constructions hal.inria.fr/inria-00076024… [pdf]


The F# Web Stack with Henrik Feldt dotnetrocks.com/?show=1225


Roughly speaking, 'natural' means 'defined without arbitrary choices.' Making this rigorous was the early motivation for category theory.


The Fibonacci Sequence as a Functor math3ma.com/blog/fibonacci…


Programming R in Haskell: HaskellR tweag.github.io/HaskellR/


You don't have to use a functional programming language to practice functional programming, though it helps.


Next areas of math to be applied johndcook.com/blog/2016/01/2…


Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) 'What I wish I'd known when learning Haskell' dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/


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