It’s well known that you can construct the octonions using triality. One statement of triality is that Spin ( 8) has nontrivial outer automorphisms of order 3. On the other hand, the octonions have ...

Monads, like burritos, come in many different varieties. In computer science monads serve to streamline computational patterns such as exception handling and context management. We illustrate these ...

Pick a type of categorical structure: say bicategories, or monoidal categories, or whatever you like. Some of the functors between structures are equivalences, in whatever the appropriate sense might ...

Aug 17, 2007 A talk leading up to the concept of ‘characteristic classes for 2-bundles’, and a nice problem involving them.