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Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
F. William Lawvere
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Description for Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
Paperback. This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists. Num Pages: 403 pages, 575 b/w illus. 12 tables 213 exercises. BIC Classification: PBCD; PBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 170 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 708. A First Introduction to Categories. 403 pages, 575 b/w illus. 12 tables 213 exercises. This truly elementary book on categories introduces retracts, graphs, and adjoints to students and scientists. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: PBCD; PBF. Dimension: 170 x 243 x 23. Weight: 768.
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This book provides a skeleton key that makes explicit some concepts and procedures that are common to all branches of pure and applied mathematics. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by ... Read more
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This book provides a skeleton key that makes explicit some concepts and procedures that are common to all branches of pure and applied mathematics. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
403
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521719162
SKU
V9780521719162
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About F. William Lawvere
F. William Lawvere is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the State University of New York. He has previously held positions at Reed College, the University of Chicago and the City University of New York, as well as visiting Professorships at other institutions worldwide. At the 1970 International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice, Prof. Lawvere delivered an invited lecture in ... Read more
Reviews for Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
'This text, written by two experts in Category Theory and tried out carefully in courses at SUNY Buffalo, provides a simple and effective first course on conceptual mathematics.' American Mathematical Monthly '… every mathematician should know the basic ideas and techniques explained in this book …' Monatshefte für Mathematik 'Conceptual Mathematics provides an excellent introductory account to categories for those ... Read more