Yoneda Perspective

^z 20th April 2024 at 7:27pm

From "The Yoneda Perspective", a 2017 essay by Tai-Danae Bradley, discussing the Yoneda Lemma of Category Theory:

... mathematical objects are completely determined by their relationships to other objects ...

... and:

... the properties of a mathematical object are more important than its definition ...

... and in the remarks on that essay, a comment by David Roberts:

Q: "What is the Yoneda lemma? And if it's just a lemma then — my gosh — what's the theorem?"

A: "All of them."

(cf Tai-Danae Bradley's blog and her 2018 notes "What is Applied Category Theory?", ...) - ^z - 2018-10-03