Category Theory in Context

Category Theory in Context

Author: Emily Riehl

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0486820807

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Introduction to concepts of category theory — categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctions, monads — revisits a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective. 2016 edition.


Category Theory in Context

Category Theory in Context

Author: Emily Riehl

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 048680903X

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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 and colimits, adjunctions, monads, and other topics. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, the text provides tools for understanding and attacking difficult problems in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. Drawing upon a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective, the author illustrates how the concepts and constructions of category theory arise from and illuminate more basic mathematical ideas. Prerequisites are limited to familiarity with some basic set theory and logic.


Basic Category Theory

Basic Category Theory

Author: Tom Leinster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1107044243

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A short introduction ideal for students learning category theory for the first time.


Categories for the Working Mathematician

Categories for the Working Mathematician

Author: Saunders Mac Lane

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1475747217

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An array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from the foundations, this book illuminates the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. It then turns to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representations of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. These categorical concepts are extensively illustrated in the remaining chapters, which include many applications of the basic existence theorem for adjoint functors. The categories of algebraic systems are constructed from certain adjoint-like data and characterised by Beck's theorem. After considering a variety of applications, the book continues with the construction and exploitation of Kan extensions. This second edition includes a number of revisions and additions, including new chapters on topics of active interest: symmetric monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories, and the coherence theorems for them, as well as 2-categories and the higher dimensional categories which have recently come into prominence.


Categorical Homotopy Theory

Categorical Homotopy Theory

Author: Emily Riehl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1139952633

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This book develops abstract homotopy theory from the categorical perspective with a particular focus on examples. Part I discusses two competing perspectives by which one typically first encounters homotopy (co)limits: either as derived functors definable when the appropriate diagram categories admit a compatible model structure, or through particular formulae that give the right notion in certain examples. Emily Riehl unifies these seemingly rival perspectives and demonstrates that model structures on diagram categories are irrelevant. Homotopy (co)limits are explained to be a special case of weighted (co)limits, a foundational topic in enriched category theory. In Part II, Riehl further examines this topic, separating categorical arguments from homotopical ones. Part III treats the most ubiquitous axiomatic framework for homotopy theory - Quillen's model categories. Here, Riehl simplifies familiar model categorical lemmas and definitions by focusing on weak factorization systems. Part IV introduces quasi-categories and homotopy coherence.


Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists

Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists

Author: Benjamin C. Pierce

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1991-08-07

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0262326450

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Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists provides a straightforward presentation of the basic constructions and terminology of category theory, including limits, functors, natural transformations, adjoints, and cartesian closed categories. Category theory is a branch of pure mathematics that is becoming an increasingly important tool in theoretical computer science, especially in programming language semantics, domain theory, and concurrency, where it is already a standard language of discourse. Assuming a minimum of mathematical preparation, Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists provides a straightforward presentation of the basic constructions and terminology of category theory, including limits, functors, natural transformations, adjoints, and cartesian closed categories. Four case studies illustrate applications of category theory to programming language design, semantics, and the solution of recursive domain equations. A brief literature survey offers suggestions for further study in more advanced texts. Contents Tutorial • Applications • Further Reading


Categories, Types, and Structures

Categories, Types, and Structures

Author: Andrea Asperti

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Category theory is a mathematical subject whose importance in several areas of computer science, most notably the semantics of programming languages and the design of programmes using abstract data types, is widely acknowledged. This book introduces category theory at a level appropriate for computer scientists and provides practical examples in the context of programming language design.


Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Author: Pascal Hohaus

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9027260524

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Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.


Conceptual Mathematics

Conceptual Mathematics

Author: F. William Lawvere

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0521894859

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This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists.