Talk:Monad

Misc

Has anyone some more information about monads in category theory? --JensMueller

Isn't the term monad also used for the Asian yin-yang symbol, which was also used as a corporate logo by the Northern Pacific Railroad? --Chris Rodgers

There is also a monad associated with Haskell (a programming language). http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/

Dictionaries such as 1913 Webster tell that a monad can be "4. (Biol.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid." and even "5. (Chem.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen."

Monad is also a name for Microsoft new project for new CLI tools, which intend to be better than CLI tools in UNIX (and Linux).

Monas

Monas used to redirect here; I don't see why. I've redirected it to Monumen Nasional, which is almost always called "Monas". If there is something on this page that is sometimes called "Monas", we'll need to transform Monas into a disambiguation page - feel free to do so. CDC (talk) 2 July 2005 05:12 (UTC)

Haskell

What about monads in Haskell programing language ?

The entry was there already. I just moved it outside of mathematics item so it should be easier to see it now. --TuukkaH 19:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

I don't agree with the "cleanup" tag, this is just a very big disambiguation page, and has to be this large in order to provide the reader with the correct information on where to look further for the correct "monad" definition. Nixdorf 20:27, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, looking at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), this page doesn't have much along the guidelines. We should have a short (one-line) entry for each monad topic in Wikipedia, nothing more. Only one link per entry. There are some fairly short entries already but the long ones make them harder to find.

Entries that already have a respective article can be trimmed down. I suppose others should be either moved into new stub articles or merged into some existing, notable article. --TuukkaH 22:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

pov/bias

Why did you remove the philosopher links but leave the occult ones on this page? LoveMonkey 02:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

This is not an issue of subject matter but text. This article is about the word "monad" and its various uses on Wikipedia. I removed links to a number of philosphers who had dealt with the topic of monads, but where the name of the article didn't actually have any connection to the word "monad". If a philosopher or painter or politician were named "Robert Monad", then a link to him from the Monad disambig would be appropriate.

Recall that the purpose of a disambiguation page is to help users who are looking for some other use of a the term. They probably cam here from one of the monad articles, or from a search. From here, they might follow Monism and end up reading more about Pythagoras there, and following that link, but there's no reason to put Pythagoras on this page. -Harmil 03:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)