Categories for the Working Mathematician: 5 (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 5) - Softcover

Mac Lane, Saunders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441931236 ISBN 13: 9781441931238

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

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 other recent advances concerning categories.

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Review

From the reviews of the second edition:

“The book under review is an introduction to the theory of categories which, as the title suggests, is addressed to the (no-nonsense) working mathematician, thus presenting the ideas and concepts of Category Theory in a broad context of mainstream examples (primarily from algebra). ... the book remains an authoritative source on the foundations of the theory and an accessible first introduction to categories. ... It is very well-written, with plenty of interesting discussions and stimulating exercises.” (Ittay Weiss, MAA Reviews, July, 2014)

Second Edition

S.M. Lane

Categories for the Working Mathematician

"A very useful introduction to category theory."―INTERNATIONALE MATHEMATISCHE NACHRICHTEN

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441931236
• ISBN 13: 9781441931238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 330