Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory
A Handbook of Categorical Algebra, in three volumes, is a detailed account of everything a mathematician needs to know about category theory. Each volume is self-contained and is accessible to graduate students with a good background in mathematics. Volume 1 is devoted to general concepts. After introducing the terminology and proving the fundamental results concerning limits, adjoint functors and Kan extensions, the categories of fractions are studied in detail; special consideration is paid to the case of localizations. The remainder of the first volume studies various "refinements" of the fundamental concepts of category and functor.
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Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory
A Handbook of Categorical Algebra, in three volumes, is a detailed account of everything a mathematician needs to know about category theory. Each volume is self-contained and is accessible to graduate students with a good background in mathematics. Volume 1 is devoted to general concepts. After introducing the terminology and proving the fundamental results concerning limits, adjoint functors and Kan extensions, the categories of fractions are studied in detail; special consideration is paid to the case of localizations. The remainder of the first volume studies various "refinements" of the fundamental concepts of category and functor.
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Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory

Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory

by Francis Borceux
Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory

Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory

by Francis Borceux

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A Handbook of Categorical Algebra, in three volumes, is a detailed account of everything a mathematician needs to know about category theory. Each volume is self-contained and is accessible to graduate students with a good background in mathematics. Volume 1 is devoted to general concepts. After introducing the terminology and proving the fundamental results concerning limits, adjoint functors and Kan extensions, the categories of fractions are studied in detail; special consideration is paid to the case of localizations. The remainder of the first volume studies various "refinements" of the fundamental concepts of category and functor.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521061193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/24/2008
Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications , #50
Pages: 364
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The language of categories; 2. Limits; 3. Adjoint functors; 4. Generators and projectives; 5. Categories of fractions; 6. Flat functors and Cauchy completeness; 7. Bicategories and distributors; 8. Internal category theory; Bibliography; Index.
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