David M. Clark, Brian A. Davey

Natural Dualities for the Working Algebraist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First text in subject; aimed at algebraists, category theorists in mathematics and computer science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780521454155
• ISBN-10: 0521454158
• Artikelnr.: 23196854

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dual adjunctions and where to find them
2. Natural dualities
3. Strong dualities
4. Examples of strong dualities
5. Sample applications
6. What makes a duality useful? 7. Piggyback dualities
8. Optimal dualities and entailment
9. Completeness theorems for entailment
10. Dualisable algebras
Appendix A. Algebras
Appendix B. Boolean spaces
Bibliography
Notation index
Index.