Subject: tensor coalgebra Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 09:00:14 -0400 From: jim stasheff To: dondavis Who first described the tensor coalgebra and named it? The bar construction as late as Cartan 54-55 is still only an algebra (assuming A graded commutative) because as Cartan once remArked to me (paraphrased) `we didn't have coalgebras in those days' jim