William Lawvere
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Francis William Lawvere is a mathematician known for his work in category theory and the philosophy of mathematics.
Lawvere completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Columbia University in 1963, under the supervision of Samuel Eilenberg, a founder of category theory. He first taught at the University of Chicago, where he was a colleague of the other founder of category theory, Saunders Mac Lane). Lawvere then spent most of his career at University at Buffalo, where he is professor emeritus of mathematics and an adjunct professor emeritus of philosophy.
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Selected books
- 1997 Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories (with Stephen H. Schanuel). Cambridge Uni. Press. ISBN 0521478170
- 2003 (2002) Sets for Mathematics (with Robert Rosebrugh). Cambridge Uni. Press. ISBN 0521010608
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External links
- personal page. Includes bibliography and downloadable papers, Ph.D. thesis.
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- photographes:William Lawvere