A prehistory of n-categorical physics

Deep Beauty: Understanding the Quantum World Through Mathematical Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-128

  Baez, John C ^a   Lauda, Aaron D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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