- Peter J. Freyd
Peter J. Freyd is an American
mathematician , a professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania , known for work incategory theory .Mathematical work
Freyd is perhaps best known as the author of the foundational book "Abelian Categories: An Introduction to the Theory of Functors". This work culminates in a proof of
Mitchell's embedding theorem .False Memory Syndrome Foundation
Freyd and his wife
Pamela Freyd founded theFalse Memory Syndrome Foundation in 1992, after Freyd was accused by his daughter Jennifer of incestuous sexual abuse.Diana E. H. Russell. "The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women".Basic Books , 1987. xx–xxi.] Freyd, J. (1996) "Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Child Abuse." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. The history of the confrontations between the Freyds and their daughter Jennifer is recounted in the Afterword, pages 197–199.] Peter Freyd denies ["One family's tragedy spawns national group", "The Baltimore Sun", 12 Sept 1994. Available on the web at [http://www.skepticfiles.org/misctext/onefam.htm Skeptic Files] ] sexually abusing her.CV
* Ph.D.
Princeton University 1960.Publications
* Peter J. Freyd, "Abelian Categories, an Introduction to the Theory of Functors". Harper & Row (1964). Available online.
* Peter J. Freyd and Andre Scedrov: "Categories, Allegories". North-Holland (1999). ISBN 0444703683.
* Peter J. Freyd: Path Integrals, Bayesian Vision, and Is Gaussian Quadrature Really Good? Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 29: (1999)
* Peter J. Freyd, Peter W. O'Hearn, A. John Power, Makoto Takeyama, R. Street, Robert D. Tennent: Bireflectivity. Theor. Comput. Sci. 228(1–2): 49–76 (1999)Notes
External links
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*Printable versions of [http://www.emis.de/journals/TAC/reprints/articles/3/tr3abs.html Abelian categories, an introduction to the theory of functors] .
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