Conceptual Mathematics A First Introduction to Categories

Name: Conceptual Mathematics A First Introduction to Categories
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ISBN: 9780521719162

ISBN-10: 052171916X

ISBN-13: 9780521719162

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel

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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 examples in these…

Book details

List price: $65.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.61" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Foreword


Note to the reader


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The Category of Sets



Sets, maps, composition



The Algebra of Composition



Isomorphisms



Categories of Structured Sets



Examples of categories



Elementary Universal Mapping Properties



Universal mapping properties



Higher Universal Mapping Properties



Map objects



The contravariant parts functor



The components functor; Appendix



Geometry of figures and algebra of functions; Appendix



Adjoint functors; Appendix



The emergence of category theory within mathematics


Appendix



Annotated bibliography