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Colin McLarty

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Selected writings

Exposition of sheaf toposes:

• Michael Barr, Colin McLarty, Charles Wells, Variable set theory, prepared for Scientific American but unpublished (~1985) [pdf, pdf]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]

On category theory and elementary topos theory:

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

On The Rising Sea-analogy by Alexander Grothendieck:

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

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]

On the need, or not, for Grothendieck universes in Wiles‘ proof of Fermat's last theorem:

• Colin McLarty: What does it take to prove Fermat’s last theorem? – Grothendieck and the logic of number theory, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 16 3 (2010) 359–377 [doi:10.2178/bsl/1286284558, jstor:20749620, euclid]

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