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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511863226
      9781107010871
      9780521283045
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511863226
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 238 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Logic, Categories and Sets, Computer Science, Programming Languages and Applied Logic
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    Book description

    Category theory provides a general conceptual framework that has proved fruitful in subjects as diverse as geometry, topology, theoretical computer science and foundational mathematics. Here is a friendly, easy-to-read textbook that explains the fundamentals at a level suitable for newcomers to the subject. Beginning postgraduate mathematicians will find this book an excellent introduction to all of the basics of category theory. It gives the basic definitions; goes through the various associated gadgetry, such as functors, natural transformations, limits and colimits; and then explains adjunctions. The material is slowly developed using many examples and illustrations to illuminate the concepts explained. Over 200 exercises, with solutions available online, help the reader to access the subject and make the book ideal for self-study. It can also be used as a recommended text for a taught introductory course.

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    "This textbook presents a useful introduction to basic category theory, and would be suitable for a first course at the undergraduate level in computer science or mathematics."
    Steve Awodey, Mathematical Reviews

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    B., Pareigis (1970): Categories and Functors, Academic Press.

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