Peter J. Freyd
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Peter John Freyd (Template:IPAc-en; born February 5, 1936) is an American mathematician, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work in category theory and for founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
Mathematics
Freyd obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1960; his dissertation, on Functor Theory,[1] was written under the supervision of Norman Steenrod and David Buchsbaum.
Freyd is best known for his adjoint functor theorem. He was the author of the foundational book Abelian Categories: An Introduction to the Theory of Functors (1964). This work culminates in a proof of the Freyd–Mitchell embedding theorem.
In addition, Freyd's name is associated with the HOMFLYPT polynomial of knot theory, and he and Andre Scedrov originated the concept of (mathematical) allegories.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
False Memory Syndrome Foundation
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Publications
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- Peter J. Freyd and Andre Scedrov: Categories, Allegories. North-Holland (1999). Template:ISBN.
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References
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- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ↑ a b Diana E. H. Russell. The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women. Basic Books, 1987. xx–xxi.
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- ↑ 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.
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