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- noun Plural form of
topos .
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Even though toposes appeared in the 1960's, in the context of algebraic geometry, again from the mind of Grothendieck, it was certainly Lawvere and Tierney's (1972) elementary axiomatization of a topos which gave impetus to its attaining foundational status.
Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007
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Connections with intuitionistic mathematics were noted early on, and toposes are still used to investigate models of various aspects of intuitionism (Lambek
Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007
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