An Alternative Gospel of Structure: Order, Composition, Processes
Bob Coecke · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2013
We survey some basic mathematical structures, which arguably are more primitive than the structures taught at school. These structures are orders, with or without composition, and (symmetric) monoidal categories. We list several ‘real life’ incarnations of each of these. This chapter also serves as an introduction to these structures and their current and potential future uses in linguistics, physics, and knowledge representation.