Aleph Zero Categorical is a mathematics blog that I started in 2011. The primary purpose of this blog is to showcase mathematical abstraction and its beauty in the realm of pure mathematics, especially in algebra. Most of this blog is writtent to be comprehensible by someone who has taken algebra in graduate school, and much of it can be read with even fewer prerequisites.

Aleph Zero Categorical, written in symbols as $\aleph_0$ categorical, refers to a concept in model theory called categoricity. For a cardinal $\kappa$, a theory of first order logic is called $\kappa$-categorical if it has only one model of cardinality $\kappa$ up to isomorphism.

A theory with only infinite models that is $\aleph_0$ categorical is complete. This is known as the Vaught-Tarski test.

The tagline “There Can Be Only One” refers to the old television show “Highlander”, which was was a frequent phrase uttered throughout the series, and which also was part of the introductory blurb in every episode. This plays on “Aleph Zero Categorical” in that there can be only one countable aleph zero categorical model up to isomorphism. Note that you can’t see the tagline in the current theme because I haven’t figured out how to make it look cool.

1. Nguyen Huy Hoang

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http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/514504/example-flat-module-but-neither-projective-nor-injective
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2. nice blog, keep up the good work; random suggestion … perhaps make your page header link to some nominated home page (or add a home link) just to ease getting around the site?

• Jason Polak

Thanks for the suggestion. I made the header clickable and added a ‘Home’ link on the side.

3. “There can be only one” might have made its fair share of appearances on the TV show “Highlander”, but its origin lie in the first Highlander movie from 1986 with Christopher Lambert as the titular Highlander, Connor MacLeod.

• Jason Polak

Indeed! However, I believe it’s fair to say that when I came up with that tagline, I was thinking of the television show.