Joy of Abstraction

Joy of Abstraction

An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

Cheng, Eugenia

Cambridge University Press

10/2022

438

Dura

Inglês

9781108477222

15 a 20 dias

770

Prologue; Part I. Building Up to Categories: 1. Categories: the idea; 2. Abstraction; 3. Patterns; 4. Context; 5. Relationships; 6. Formalism; 7. Equivalence relations; 8. Categories: the definition; Interlude: A Tour of Math: 9. Examples we've already seen, secretly; 10. Ordered sets; 11. Small mathematical structures; 12. Sets and functions; 13. Large worlds of mathematical structures; Part II. Doing Category Theory: 14. Isomorphisms; 15. Monics and epics; 16. Universal properties; 17. Duality; 18. Products and coproducts; 19. Pullbacks and pushouts; 20. Functors; 21. Categories of categories; 22. Natural transformations; 23. Yoneda; 24. Higher dimensions; 25. Epilogue: thinking categorically; Appendices: A. Background on alphabets; B. Background on basic logic; C. Background on set theory; D. Background on topological spaces; Glossary; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Index.