Sets, Categories and Topoi: approaches to ontology in Badiou’s later work
This paper outlines the rise of category theory as an alternative foundation for mathematics, offering a sketch of some of the ways in which topos theory generalises traditional set theory.
26 March 2014
Introducing the New Cartesian Synthesis
The first of a planned triology of posts outlining developments in contemporary mathematics that involve a New Cartesian Synthesis locking together the algebra of the symbolic register with the geometry of the imaginary.
10 January 2014