Math 77 Spring Semester 2020
Table of Contents
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Text
Our main text will be leinster16_basic_categ_theor. Other references to keep in mind are riehl17:_categ_theor_contex, maclane-categories-2nd, and fong18_seven_sketc_compos. All of these sources except maclane-categories-2nd are freely available online.
General Game Plan
Tentatively, we plan to study our main text leinster16_basic_categ_theor from beginning to end. We will digress when digression seems sensible. We will cover less if we run out of time. We will continue in other sources if we finish leinster16_basic_categ_theor.
Prerequisite
MATH 67: Introduction to modern algebra.
Class Meetings
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:30 in Science Center room 145.
Bibliography
- [leinster16_basic_categ_theor] Leinster, Basic Category Theory, , (2016). link.
- [riehl17:_categ_theor_contex] Riehl, Category Theory in Context, Dover Publications (2017).
- [maclane-categories-2nd] Mac Lane, Categories for the working mathematician, Springer-Verlag (1998).
- [fong18_seven_sketc_compos] Fong & Spivak, Seven Sketches in Compositionality: an Invitation To Applied Category Theory, CoRR, (2018). link.