Categories for the Working Mathematician

Categories for the Working Mathematician

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MacLane, Saunders
Springer New York
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Category Theory has developed rapidly. This book aims to present those ideas and methods which can now be effectively used by Mathe- maticians working in a variety of other fields of Mathematical research. This occurs at several levels. On the first level, categories provide a convenient conceptual language, based on the notions of category, functor, natural transformation, contravariance, and functor category. These notions are presented, with appropriate examples, in Chapters I and II. Next comes the fundamental idea of an adjoint pair of functors. This appears in many substantially equivalent forms: That of universal construction, that of direct and inverse limit, and that of pairs offunctors with a natural isomorphism between corresponding sets of arrows. All these forms, with their interrelations, are examined in Chapters III to V. The slogan is &quote;Adjoint functors arise everywhere&quote;. Alternatively, the fundamental notion of category theory is that of a monoid -a set with a binary operation of multiplication which is associative and which has a unit; a category itself can be regarded as a sort of general- ized monoid. Chapters VI and VII explore this notion and its generaliza- tions. Its close connection to pairs of adjoint functors illuminates the ideas of universal algebra and culminates in Beck's theorem characterizing categories of algebras; on the other hand, categories with a monoidal structure (given by a tensor product) lead inter alia to the study of more convenient categories of topological spaces.
EAN 9781461298397
ISBN 1461298393
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ Springer New York
Dátum vydania 11. novembra 2013
Jazyk English
Krajina United States
Autori MacLane, Saunders
Séria Graduate Texts in Mathematics
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