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Category Theory

By Steve Awodey

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
9780198568612, 0198568614
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
849 kB (868984 bytes)
Series
Oxford Logic Guides
Edition
1
Pages
268\268
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

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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