Subject: categories: CT for CS? From: rjwood@mscs.dal.ca Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:55:10 -0400 (AST) The new Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie is asking Mathematics for new classes and the chairman of Mathematics is willing to suggest a Category Theory class. Is there now a `standard CT for CS class' in the same way that there is a `standard first class in measure theory' and so on? If so, can you advise on 1) text(s), including material to be explicitly covered in a 39 hour class; 2) background required, both for a CS major and a Mathematics major; 3) universities which actually do this --- particularly those with pretensions and realities similar to Dalhousie's? Please send responses directly to me rather than the categories list. I will summarize them for the list. Thanks RJ