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Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)
Jacob Lurie
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Description for Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)
Paperback. Higher category theory is generally regarded as technical and forbidding, but part of it is considerably more tractable: the theory of infinity-categories, higher categories in which all higher morphisms are assumed to be invertible. This title presents the foundations of this theory. Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies. Num Pages: 944 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: PBCD; PBCH; PBPD; PBW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1312.
Higher category theory is generally regarded as technical and forbidding, but part of it is considerably more tractable: the theory of infinity-categories, higher categories in which all higher morphisms are assumed to be invertible. In Higher Topos Theory, Jacob Lurie presents the foundations of this theory, using the language of weak Kan complexes introduced by Boardman and Vogt, and shows how existing theorems in algebraic topology can be reformulated and generalized in the theory's new language. The result is a powerful theory with applications in many areas of mathematics. The book's first five chapters give an exposition of the theory of infinity-categories that emphasizes their role as a generalization of ordinary categories. Many of the fundamental ideas from classical category theory are generalized to the infinity-categorical setting, such as limits and colimits, adjoint functors, ind-objects and pro-objects, locally accessible and presentable categories, Grothendieck fibrations, presheaves, and Yoneda's lemma. A sixth chapter presents an infinity-categorical version of the theory of Grothendieck topoi, introducing the notion of an infinity-topos, an infinity-category that resembles the infinity-category of topological spaces in the sense that it satisfies certain axioms that codify some of the basic principles of algebraic topology. A seventh and final chapter presents applications that illustrate connections between the theory of higher topoi and ideas from classical topology.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
Series
Annals of Mathematics Studies
Number of Pages
944
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691140490
SKU
V9780691140490
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About Jacob Lurie
Jacob Lurie is associate professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)
"This book is a remarkable achievement, and the reviewer thinks it marks the beginning of a major change in algebraic topology."
Mark Hovey, Mathematical Reviews
Mark Hovey, Mathematical Reviews