Subject: General exposition on higher dimensional algebra Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:57:37 +0000 From: Ronnie Brown To: Don Davis Tim Porter and I have been working on a paper called `The intuitions of higher dimensional algebra for the study of structured space' which may be downloaded from http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/paris-cogn8.ps.gz This develops a lecture given by me to the seminar Series `Géometrie et Cognition' of G. Longo et al at the ENS, Paris, in May, 2001, see http://www.di.ens.fr/~longo/geocogni.html The invitation came about via the concurrency connection (GETCO) with HDA and the talk, and similarly the article, was addressed to a general audience. The paper is submitted to Revue de Synthèse. The aim of the paper is to suggest wider links and hopefully look to the future; we would be interested in hearing from others who know of other general links of this type. Comments will be appreciated. Ronnie Brown -- Professor Emeritus R. Brown, School of Informatics, Mathematics Division, University of Wales, Bangor Dean St., Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT, United Kingdom Tel. direct:+44 1248 382474|office: 382681 fax: +44 1248 361429 World Wide Web: home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/ (Links to survey articles: Higher dimensional group theory Groupoids and crossed objects in algebraic topology) Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics CDRom Version 1.1 http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/CDadvert.html Symbolic Sculpture and Mathematics: http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/sculmath/ Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/