
Category Theory
Steve Awodey(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 25. May 2006
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-0-19-856861-2 (ISBN)
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Description
This text and reference book on Category Theory, a branch of abstract algebra, is aimed not only at students of Mathematics, but also researchers and students of Computer Science, Logic, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and any of the other fields that now make use of it. Containing clear definitions of the essential concepts, illuminated with numerous accessible examples, and providing full proofs of all important propositions and theorems, this book aims to make the basic ideas, theorems, and methods of Category Theory understandable to this broad readership. Although it assumes few mathematical pre-requisites, the standard of mathematical rigour is not compromised. The material covered includes the standard core of categories; functors; natural transformations; equivalence; limits and colimits; functor categories; representables; Yoneda's lemma; adjoints; monads. An extra topic of cartesian closed categories and the lambda-calculus is also provided; a must for computer scientists, logicians and linguists!
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This excellent textbook can be recommended to everybody who would like to learn the basis of category theory. EMS NewsletterMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
298 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856861-2 (9780198568612)
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Steve Awodey
Category Theory
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06/2010
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Oxford University Press
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Content
Preface; 1. Categories; 2. Abstract structures; 3. Duality; 4. Groups and categories; 5. Limits and colimits; 6. Exponentials; 7. Functors and Naturality; 8. Categories of Diagrams; 9. Adjoints; 10. Monads and algebras; References; Index