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    Saunders Mac Lane (August 4, 1909 – April 14, 2005), born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel...
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  • structure, by the American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane. Throughout his book, and especially in chapter I.11, Mac Lane informally discusses how mathematics...
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    Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. He was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland...
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  • screenwriter Evan MacLane (born 1982), American baseball player Mary MacLane (1881–1929), Canadian-born American writer Saunders Mac Lane (1909–2005), American...
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  • derived from Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane, who introduced such spaces in the late 1940s. As such, an Eilenberg–MacLane space is a special kind of topological...
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  • category theory, a branch of mathematics, Mac Lane's coherence theorem states, in the words of Saunders Mac Lane, “every diagram commutes”. But regarding...
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  • theory, Mac Lane's planarity criterion is a characterisation of planar graphs in terms of their cycle spaces, named after Saunders Mac Lane who published...
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  • is a textbook in category theory written by American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane, who cofounded the subject together with Samuel Eilenberg. It was...
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  • result is often called the Steinitz–Mac Lane exchange lemma, also recognizing the generalization by Saunders Mac Lane of Steinitz's lemma to matroids. Let...
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    structures and their relations. It was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the middle of the 20th century in their foundational work on algebraic...
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