Freyd is best known for his adjoint functor theorem. He was the author of the foundational book Abelian Categories: An Introduction to the Theory of Functors (1964). This work culminates in a proof of the Freyd–Mitchell embedding theorem.
Freyd and his wife Pamela founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in 1992,[4][5] after Freyd was accused of childhood sexual abuse by his daughter Jennifer.[4][6] Peter Freyd denied the accusations.[7] Three years after its founding, it had more than 7,500 members.[7] As of December 2019, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation was dissolved.[8]
Freyd Peter J.; O'Hearn Peter W.; Power A. John; Takeyama Makoto; Street R.; Tennent Robert D. (1999). "Bireflectivity". Theor. Comput. Sci. 228 (1–2): 49–76. doi:10.1016/S0304-3975(98)00354-5.
References
↑American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale, 2005
↑Freyd, J. (1996) Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Child Abuse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. The history of the confrontations between the Freyds and their daughter Jennifer is recounted in the Afterword, pages 197–199.
