nLab
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| Founded by: | unknown |
| Status: | Active |
| Language: | English |
| Edit mode: | OpenEdit |
| Wiki engine: | Custom engine |
| Wiki license: | No license |
| Main topic: | Science |
| Wiki size: | 14,277 article pages see stats |
(As of: 2019-11-04)
The nLab is a collaborative wiki. It grew out of the desire (I, II) to have a place for development (the “Lab” in “nLab”) and indexed archives of the ideas and concepts surrounding the discussions at the The n-Category Café. These discussions primarily are about mathematics, physics and philosophy from the perspective of category theory and higher category theory (the “n” in “nLab” and nPOV).
The nLab was created in November 2008 using software provided and set up by Jacques Distler. The name “nLab” (short for “n-Category Lab”, but perhaps less restrictive) was dreamt up by Lisa Raphals (John Baez‘s wife).
Historically, the nLab was powered by Instiki, but now runs on a custom fork. All bug reports or other software issues/requests for the nLab are currently best raised in the category nLab Technical Matters at the nForum, but can also be posted at GitHub.