Categorical perspectives. Papers from the international conference held in honor of George E. Strecker on the occasion of his 60th birthday at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA, August 1998 (Q5939777)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Schröder, Lutz}, Categories: A free tour, 1-27 [Zbl 0985.18001] \textit{Rhineghost, Y. T.}, The functor that wouldn't be, 29-35 [Zbl 0988.18002] \textit{Rhineghost, Y. T.}, The emergence of functors, 37-45 [Zbl 0985.18004] \textit{Zmrzlina, Alois}, Too many functors, 47-62 [Zbl 0985.18005] \textit{Koslowski, Jürgen}, Contributions and importance of Professor George E. Strecker's research, 63-90 [Zbl 0985.18002] \textit{Strecker, George E.}, 10 rules for surviving as a mathematician and teacher, 91-94 [Zbl 0977.01040] \textit{Melton, Austin}, Connections and polarities, 95-107 [Zbl 0989.06007] \textit{Castellini, G.}, Categorical closure operators, 109-150 [Zbl 0995.18002] \textit{Bentley, H. L.}, Extensions of maps from dense subspaces, 151-176 [Zbl 0979.54018] \textit{Preuß, Gerhard}, Characterizations of subspaces of important types of convergence spaces in the realm of convenient topology, 177-190 [Zbl 0979.54001] \textit{Rhineghost, Y. T.}, The naturals are Lindelöf iff Ascoli holds, 191-196 [Zbl 0983.03039] \textit{Janos, Ludvik}, Revisiting the celebrated thesis of J. de Groot: ``Everything is linear'', 197-217 [Zbl 0997.54017] \textit{Lemin, Vladimir A.}, Finite ultrametric spaces and computer science, 219-241 [Zbl 0985.54024] \textit{Schroeder, Bernd S. W.}, The copnumber of a graph is bounded by \(\lfloor \frac{3}{2} \text{ genus}(G)\rfloor+3\), 243-263 [Zbl 0983.05030] \textit{El Bashir, Robert; Herrlich, Horst; Hušek, Miroslav}, Abelian groups: simultaneously reflective and coreflective subcategories versus modules, 265-281 [Zbl 0988.20046]