Compositional Thermostatics (Part 3)

guest post by Owen Lynch

This is the third part (part 1, part 2) of a blog series on a paper that we wrote recently:

• John Baez, Owen Lynch and Joe Moeller, Compositional thermostatics.

In the previous two posts we talked about what a thermostatic system was, and how we think about composing them. In this post, we are going to back up from thermostatic systems a little bit, and talk about operads: a general framework for composing things! But we will not yet discuss how t...