Categories for the Working Mathematician

by Saunders Mac Lane

Book Overview

This new edition of Categories for the Working Mathematician 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387984038
• ISBN13: 9780387984032
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"