Saunders Mac Lane: From <i>Principia Mathematica</i> through Göttingen to the Working Theory of Structures
Saunders Mac Lane: From <i>Principia Mathematica</i> through Göttingen to the Working Theory of Structures
Abstract Saunders Mac Lane heard David Hilbert’s weekly lectures on philosophy and utterly believed Hilbert’s declaration that mathematics will know no limits. He studied algebra with Emmy Noether, and both mathematics and philosophy with Hermann Weyl. As a young algebraist he created today’s standard working method for mathematical structure: category …