nLab Colin McLarty

Selected writings

Selected writings

On The Rising Sea-analogy by Alexander Grothendieck:

  • Colin McLarty, The Rising Sea: Grothendieck on simplicity and generality I, 2003 (pdf)

On the history of topos theory:

  • Colin McLarty, The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory , Brit. J. Phil. Sci., 41 (1990) [jstor, pdf]

  • Colin McLarty, Grothendieck’s 1973 topos lectures, Séminaire Lectures grothendieckiennes, 3 May (2018) [YT]

  • Colin McLarty: The Life of Alexander Grothendieck & Topos Theory, podcast interview at Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (June 2024) [YT]

Exposition of sheaf toposes:

On category theory and elementary topos theory:

On Saunders MacLane:

  • Colin McLarty, The Last Mathematician from Hilbert’s Göttingen: Saunders Mac Lane as Philosopher of Mathematics,Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 2007 (pdf)
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