Peter J. Freyd 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.
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Mathematical work
Freyd is perhaps best known as the author of the foundational book Abelian Categories: An Introduction to the Theory of Functors. This work culminates in a proof of Mitchell's embedding theorem.
False Memory Syndrome Foundation
Freyd and his wife Pamela founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in 1992,[1] after Freyd was accused of sexual abuse by his daughter Jennifer.[1][2] Freyd denies the accusations.[3]
CV
- Ph.D. Princeton University 1960.
Publications
- Peter J. Freyd, Abelian Categories, an Introduction to the Theory of Functors. Harper & Row (1964). Available online.
- Peter J. Freyd and Andre Scedrov: Categories, Allegories. North-Holland (1999). ISBN 0444703683.
- Peter J. Freyd: Path Integrals, Bayesian Vision, and Is Gaussian Quadrature Really Good? Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 29: (1999)
- Peter J. Freyd, Peter W. O'Hearn, A. John Power, Makoto Takeyama, R. Street, Robert D. Tennent: Bireflectivity. Theor. Comput. Sci. 228(1–2): 49–76 (1999)
Notes
- ^ a b Diana E. H. Russell. The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women. Basic Books, 1987. xx–xxi.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "One family's tragedy spawns national group", The Baltimore Sun, 12 Sept 1994. Available on the web at Skeptic Files
External links
- Peter J. Freyd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Printable versions of Abelian categories, an introduction to the theory of functors.
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