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Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' unofficial PDF and LaTeX source
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
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Corrected occasional misspelling of Lawvere and other minor spelling mistakes, and capitalized Cartesian #86

Closed george-hawkins closed 7 years ago

george-hawkins commented 7 years ago

I made some minor spelling corrections.

Note: unfortunately my editor feels that every line, including the last one, should end with a newline character so the last line of each file I changed also shows as changed in the diffs.

I did also start correcting "cartesian" (spelled with a small "c") to "Cartesian" but then decided to leave this alone. Using a capital "C" however does seem to be the norm, e.g. if you look at Cartesian product on Wikipedia or on Wolfram.

hmemcpy commented 7 years ago

Amazing! Thanks so much for this! I think you're right to convert Cartesian to capital. If you can, please add another commit, and I will merge it!

george-hawkins commented 7 years ago

As requested - added a commit to change all occurrences of cartesian to Cartesian, but left bicartesian as it is - this seems to be the standard convention.

hmemcpy commented 7 years ago

Hmm, I'm so sorry to say this, but I just checked the Product (category theory) page on wikipedia, and it seems to define everything in lowercase... I really have no idea :)

hmemcpy commented 7 years ago

They are really inconsistent about this too, other pages seem to capitalize Caresian.

george-hawkins commented 7 years ago

Hmm... tough call but Wolfram and various others go for the capital 😄

hmemcpy commented 7 years ago

Then sure! IF there's an issue - we can always revert :) I'll merge this. Thanks again for the help!

george-hawkins commented 7 years ago

The OED also goes for caps but I'll leave it up to you 😄