Hi, My name is John Kennison and I am glad to be welcomed to the Friam group. I am a retired Math professor and have been a friend and colleague of Nick Thompson's for many years. My field is category theory and I am interested in all kinds of applications of categories to other areas of math, including dynamical systems. I have been reading Rosen's "Life Itself" which seems half-baked, pretentious and badly written, but which also seems to be asking some deep and important questions. So I enjoy trying to puzzle my way through it.
I like listening to discussions about the nature of math. While I have practical experience as a mathematician and am not afraid to voice my opinions, I have done almost no philosophical reading on this subject. ---John ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
