Category Theory in Context, 9780486809038
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Unlock math’s hidden structures: Category theory demystified, from basic ideas to applications.

Category Theory in Context

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    272 pages

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    30 December 2016

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Summary

Category Theory in Context: A Concise Introduction

Category theory has provided the foundations for many of the twentieth century’s greatest advances in pure mathematics. This concise, original text for a one-semester course on the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities.

The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780486809038
ISBN-10:048680903X
Series:Aurora: Dover Modern Math Originals
Author:Emily Riehl
Publisher:Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint:Dover Publications Inc.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:30 December 2016
Weight:375g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 14mm
About The Author

Emily Riehl

Emily Riehl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011 and was a Benjamin Pierce and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2011-15. She is also the author of Categorical Homotopy Theory.

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