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Categories for the Working Mathematician
Mac Lane
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Description for Categories for the Working Mathematician
Hardcover. Describes the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. This book focuses on 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. Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 317 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBC; PBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 652.
Categories for the Working Mathematician provides 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. The book 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 ... Read more
Categories for the Working Mathematician provides 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. The book 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
329
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Series
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Condition
New
Weight
652g
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387984032
SKU
V9780387984032
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Ref
99-3
Reviews for Categories for the Working Mathematician
From the reviews of the second edition: “The book under review is an introduction to the theory of categories which, as the title suggests, is addressed to the (no-nonsense) working mathematician, thus presenting the ideas and concepts of Category Theory in a broad context of mainstream examples (primarily from algebra). … the book remains an authoritative source on the ... Read more