Colin McLarty is a logician whose publications have ranged widely in philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, as well as in the history of science and of mathematics.
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McLarty's Elementary Categories and Elementary Toposes describes category theory and topos theory at an elementary level.[1]
He has written papers about Saunders Mac Lane, one of the founders of category theory.
He is a member of the Grothendieck Circle, which provides on-line and open access to many writings about the mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck, whose category-theoretic genius revolutionized Banach-space theory and algebraic geometry and whose life has fascinated many biographers and mathematical scientists.[2]
McLarty has also written about the German algebraist, Emma Noether, who was a Jewish woman, and her involvement with German political history.[3]
At Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Colin McLarty is the Truman P. Handy Professor of Philosophy and the Chair of the Philosophy Department.
At CWRU, he is also a professor of mathematics.
McLarty is a member of the faculty of the CWRU program in women's and gender studies.[4]