Category Theory in Context

Emily Riehl, Ian Stewart

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English

Dover Publications Inc.
16 November 2016

Mathematics & Sciences; Mathematical logic; Algebra

Category theory has provided the foundations for many of the twentieth century's greatest advances in pure mathematics. This concise, original text for a one-semester course on the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctions, monads, and other topics. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, the text provides tools for understanding and attacking difficult problems in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. Drawing upon a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective, the author illustrates how the concepts and constructions of category theory arise from and illuminate more basic mathematical ideas. Prerequisites are limited to familiarity with some basic set theory and logic.

By: Emily Riehl, Ian Stewart
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9780486809038
ISBN 10: 048680903X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 16 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Emily Riehl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011 and was a Benjamin Pierce and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2011-15. She is also the author of Categorical Homotopy Theory.