Basic category theory
At the heart of this short introduction to category theory is the idea of a universal property, important throughout mathematics. After an introductory chapter giving the basic definitions, separate chapters explain three ways of expressing universal properties: via adjoint functors, representable f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Categories, functors and natural transformations
- Adjoints
- Interlude on sets
- Representables
- Limits
- Adjoints, representables and limits
- Appendix: Proof of the general adjoint functor theorem