CATEGORIES FOR THE WORKING MATHEMATICIAN 2/ED.

MAC LANE, SAUNDERS

ISBN 10: 0387984038 / ISBN 13: 9780387984032

Edité par Springer, 1978

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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 data and characterized by Beck's theorem. After considering a variety of applications, the book continues with the construction and exploitation of Kan extensions. This second edition includes a number of revisions and additions, including two new chapters on topics of active interest. One is on symmetric monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories and the coherence theorems for them. The second describes 2-categories and the higher dimensional categories which have recently come into prominence. The bibliography has also been expanded to cover some of the many other recent advances concerning categories. 580 gr. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780387984032LEA19519

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Titre : CATEGORIES FOR THE WORKING MATHEMATICIAN 2/...

Éditeur : Springer

Date d'édition : 1978

Reliure : Dura

Illustrateur : No Aplica

Etat : New

Etat de la jaquette : Nuevo

Edition : 2.

Type de livre : Libro

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Book by Mac Lane Saunders