New Perspectives in Algebra, Topology and Categories: Summer School, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 12-15, 2018 and September 11-14, 2019

This book provides an introduction to some key subjects in algebra and topology. It consists of comprehensive texts of some hours courses on the preliminaries for several advanced theories in (categorical) algebra and topology. Often, this kind of presentations is not so easy to find in the literature, where one begins articles by assuming a lot of knowledge in the field. This volume can both help young researchers to quickly get into the subject by offering a kind of « roadmap » and also h...