Higher Operads, Higher Categories

by Tom Leinster

Category theory has experienced a resurgence in popularity recently because of new links with topology and mathematical physics. This book provides a clearly written account of higher order category theory and presents operads and multicategories as a natural language for its study. Tom Leinster has included necessary background material and applications as well as appendices containing some of the more technical proofs that might have disrupted the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521532159
• ISBN13: 9780521532150
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"