Saunders Mac Lane Categories for the Working Mathematician (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Categories for the Working MathematicianCondition: NewEAN: 9780387984032ISBN: 9780387984032Edition: 2nd ed. 1978Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Format: HardbackRelease Date: 09/25/1998Description: 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 onsymmetric 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Saunders Mac LaneGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Graduate Texts in MathematicsISBN-10: 0387984038Type: Mathematical FoundationsRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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