Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 2, Categories and Structures

by Francis Borceux

Overview

The second volume, which assumes familiarity with the material in the first, introduces important classes of categories that have played a fundamental role in the subject's development and applications. In addition, after several chapters discussing specific categories, the book develops all the major concepts concerning Benabou's ideas of fibered categories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521061223
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2008
Series:	Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications , #51
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	956,973
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction to the handbook; 1. Abelian categories; 2. Regular categories; 3. Algebraic theories; 4. Monads; 5. Accessible categories; 6. Enriched category theory; 7. Topological categories; 8. Fibred categories; Bibliography; Index.