Mal'cev, Protomodular, Homological and Semi-Abelian Categories

by Dominique Bourn and Francis Borceux

Book Overview

The purpose of the book is to take stock of the situation concerning Algebra via Category Theory in the last fifteen years, where the new and synthetic notions of Mal'cev, protomodular, homological and semi-abelian categories emerged. These notions force attention on the fibration of points and allow a unified treatment of the main algebraic: homological lemmas, Noether isomorphisms, commutator theory. The book gives full importance to examples and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048165512
• ISBN13: 9789048165513
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"