Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics

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For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory. This Festschrift was put together on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The papers in it give a good picture of the multiple research areas where the impact of Jim Lambek's work can be felt. The volume includes contributions by prominent researchers and by their students, showing how Jim Lambek's ideas keep inspiring upcoming generations of scholars.
For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory. This Festschrift was put together on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The papers in it give a good picture of the multiple research areas where the impact of Jim Lambek's work can be felt. The volume includes contributions by prominent researchers and by their students, showing how Jim Lambek's ideas keep inspiring upcoming generations of scholars.
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

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