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Basic category theory /

"At the heart of this short introduction to category theory is the idea of a universal property, important throughout mathematics. After an introductory chapter giving the basic definitions, separate chapters explain three ways of expressing universal properties: via adjoint functors, represent...

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Main Author: Leinster, Tom
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge, 2014.
Series:Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics ; 143.
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Table of Contents:
  • Categories, functors and natural transformations
  • Adjoints
  • Interlude on sets
  • Representables
  • Limits
  • Adjoints, representables and limits
  • Appendix: Proof of the general adjoint functor theorem.