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Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory

By Ralf Krömer

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
2007
ISBN
9783764375232, 376437523X, 3764375248, 9783764375249
Open Library ID
OL9091056M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5870490 bytes)
Series
Science Networks. Historical Studies
Edition
1
Pages
399\399
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The main goal of the book under review is to provide a systematic and profound analysis of several important historical and epistemological aspects of category theory. The central theme of the book is to give an analysis of the remarkable fact that category theory gained position in daily mathematics as a useful and legitimate conceptual innovation, in spite of the difficulties of its set-theoretical foundations and the challenge it caused to this formerly well-established mathematical foundation and to some epistemological positions.

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