
Evan Patterson
I am an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of...
- Scientific and statistical modeling
- Category theory and categorical logic
- Software systems for the above
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Graded categories as double functors (5/1/2025)
I explain how a category graded by a monoidal category can be viewed as a double functor out of the delooping of the monoidal category. A few consequences and a series of examples are then presented.
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Representing knowledge and querying data using double-functorial semantics, 2024. Michael Lambert, Evan Patterson.
We argue that double categories of relations are a unifying language for knowledge representation and databases, combining Spivak and Kent's functional ologs with my relational ologs. Read more