Categories for the Working Mathematician

by Saunders Mac Lane

Book Overview

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. It 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387984038
• ISBN13: 9780387984032
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"