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Welcome!

This is a lab for collaborative work on Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy — especially insofar as these subjects touch on n-categories and related ‘higher algebraic structures’.

In other words: this place is like the library, or alchemist’s laboratory, in the back room of the n-Category Café. You come here to work and go there to chat.

We are hoping to create here a space for presentation and archival storage of collaborative work of encyclopedic, didactic, expositional, but also original nature. This will include, but not be limited to, the subjects being discussed every day in the n-Café.

But this site started operation only a few months ago. Some structure is beginning to appear, but we are still in a very early stage. Your help is appreciated!

  • See About for some ideas what the nLab is trying to be, and what not.

  • See the HowTo-page to get started if you want to contribute.

  • See Content for a list of existing content and see latest changes to get an idea of recent activity.

  • There is a forum (imaginatively called the n-Forum) where discussion about the n-Lab can take place (i.e. not discussion of what goes into a page but rather how it goes onto the page). Some discussion has taken place (and is still taking place) on an entry at the n-Café. Old discussions can be found at the General Discussion page.

  • Distilled wisdom from the various discussions is starting to appear on the FAQ.

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