Editors:
- Dedicated to Jim Lambek, a profoundly inspirational mathematician, whose contributions cover an extraordinarily large range of topics, from mathematics to linguistics to physics
- Contains papers by leading researchers in the fields of algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory
- Preface contains some personal recollections, describing different ways the editors of this book have come to know Jim Lambek
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8222)
Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, Education and Quantitative Economics, Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy
Claudia Casadio
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Department of Computer Science, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Bob Coecke
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Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Moortgat
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Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Philip Scott
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics
Book Subtitle: Essays dedicated to Jim Lambek on the Occasion of this 90th Birthday
Editors: Claudia Casadio, Bob Coecke, Michael Moortgat, Philip Scott
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54789-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54788-1Published: 17 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54789-8Published: 03 April 2014
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 421
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Computation by Abstract Devices, Logics and Meanings of Programs, History of Computing, Computer Science, general