Sets for Mathematics

by Robert Rosebrugh and F. William Lawvere

Book Overview

Advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students need a unified foundation for their study of geometry, analysis, and algebra. For the first time, this book uses categorical algebra to build such a foundation, starting from intuitive descriptions of mathematically and physically common phenomena and advancing to a precise specification of the nature of Categories of Sets. Set theory as the algebra of mappings is introduced and developed as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521010608
• ISBN13: 9780521010603
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.9"