Tom Leinster (University of Edinburgh)

Basic Category Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assuming little mathematical background, this short introduction to category theory is ideal for beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduates learning category theory for the first time. Suitable for independent study or as a course book, it gives extensive explanations of the key concepts along with hundreds of examples and exercises.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781107044241
• ISBN-10: 1107044243
• Artikelnr.: 40603003

Autorenporträt

Tom Leinster has held postdoctoral positions at Cambridge and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France), and held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. He is currently a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of Higher Operads, Higher Categories (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and one of the hosts of the research blog, The n-Category Café.

Inhaltsangabe

Note to the reader
Introduction
1. Categories, functors and natural transformations
2. Adjoints
3. Interlude on sets
4. Representables
5. Limits
6. Adjoints, representables and limits
Appendix: proof of the General Adjoint Functor Theorem
Glossary of notation
Further reading
Index.