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About the Author
Dr Heunen is a mathematical physicist with an interest in logic. He obtained his PhD in mathematics and computer science at the University of Nijmegen in 2009. Currently he works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Dr Sadrzadeh works on computational logical modelling and reasoning and their applications to natural language syntax and semantics. Her graduate studies in Computer Software Engineering, Logic, and Philosophy, were done in Universities of Sharif (in Iran), Ottawa and Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), and Oxford, where she was an academic visitor for half of the duration of her PhD and then an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow and where she is currently working as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow. Mr Grefenstette is finishing a DPhil in Computer Science on the topic of exploiting category-theoretic methods from quantum information theory to add compositionality to distributional semantic models of natural language. He has a background in Physics (University of Sheffield, UK) and Philosophy (University of St Andrews, UK). He will be continuing his work on compositionality and semantics in Oxford as a postdoc, starting in Autumn 2012.
Reviews
This book will be of interest to people with a background in category theory, whether from a quantum physics background or linguistic background. It may also be useful to researchers who use the approach presented here to apply categorical ideas and compositional reasoning to another field of knowledge, resulting in further links being found between apparently unrelated field. * John Bartlett, Mathematics Today *
Category theory is sometimes used for building long and high conceptual bridges. Here it is in action, spanning a string diagram bridge between quantum physics and linguistics. In the middle you may feel dizzy. When you get to the other side, the clouds may obscure where you started from. But the landscape in between is very picturesque and definitely worth the climb. * Dusko Pavlovic, Royal Holloway, University of London *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199646296
Author Chris Heunen
Format Hardback
Page Count 430
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 162mm * 29mm