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F. W. Lawvere
American mathematician
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contribution to foundations of mathematics
- In foundations of mathematics: Topos theory
…contribution of the American mathematician F.W. Lawvere (born 1937), who elaborated on the seminal work of the German-born French mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck (born 1928) in algebraic geometry. At one time he considered using the category of (small) categories (and functors) itself for the foundations of mathematics. Though he did not…
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