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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) (YouTube video)

On category theory and elementary topos theory:

• Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, Oxford University Press 1992 (ISBN:9780198514732)

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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