About this book
Introduction
For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory. This Festschrift was put together on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The papers in it give a good picture of the multiple research areas where the impact of Jim Lambek's work can be felt. The volume includes contributions by prominent researchers and by their students, showing how Jim Lambek's ideas keep inspiring upcoming generations of scholars.
Keywords
algebra category theory linguistics proof theory theoretical physics
Editors and affiliations
- Claudia Casadio
- Bob Coecke
- Michael Moortgat
- Philip Scott
- 1.Department of Philosophy, Education and Quantitative EconomicsGabriele D’Annunzio UniversityChietiItaly
- 2.Department of Computer ScienceOxford UniversityOxfordUK
- 3.Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTSUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
- 4.Department of MathematicsUniversity of OttawaOttawaCanada
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