Download or read book Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics written by Claudia Casadio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory. This Festschrift was put together on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The papers in it give a good picture of the multiple research areas where the impact of Jim Lambek's work can be felt. The volume includes contributions by prominent researchers and by their students, showing how Jim Lambek's ideas keep inspiring upcoming generations of scholars.