Category TheoryCategory theory is a branch of abstract algebra with incredibly diverse applications. This text and reference book is aimed not only at mathematicians, but also researchers and students of computer science, logic, linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, and any of the other fields in which the ideas are being applied. Containing clear definitions of the essential concepts, illuminated with numerous accessible examples, and providing full proofs of all important propositions and theorems, this book aims to make the basic ideas, theorems, and methods of category theory understandable to this broad readership. Although assuming few mathematical pre-requisites, the standard of mathematical rigour is not compromised. The material covered includes the standard core of categories; functors; natural transformations; equivalence; limits and colimits; functor categories; representables; Yoneda's lemma; adjoints; monads. An extra topic of cartesian closed categories and the lambda-calculus is also provided - a must for computer scientists, logicians and linguists! This Second Edition contains numerous revisions to the original text, including expanding the exposition, revising and elaborating the proofs, providing additional diagrams, correcting typographical errors and, finally, adding an entirely new section on monoidal categories. Nearly a hundred new exercises have also been added, many with solutions, to make the book more useful as a course text and for self-study. |
Contents
1 Categories | 1 |
2 Abstract structures | 29 |
3 Duality | 53 |
4 Groups and categories | 75 |
5 Limits and colimits | 89 |
6 Exponentials | 119 |
7 Naturality | 147 |
8 Categories of diagrams | 185 |
9 Adjoints | 207 |
10 Monads and algebras | 253 |
Solutions to selected exercises | 279 |
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A-calculus adjunction arrow f bijective binary products Boolean algebra cartesian closed category category Sets category theory cocomplete coequalizer colimit composition consider constructed contravariant coproduct counit defined definition determined diagram commutes dual duality elements endofunctor equations equivalence relation example exercise exponential following diagram forgetful functor free monoid function f functor category functor F given go f graph Heyting algebra Hom(A Hom(C Hom(X Homsets I-indexed identity arrows implies initial object injective inverse left adjoint limits locally small logic monad monic mono monoidal category morphism natural isomorphism natural numbers natural transformation notion objects and arrows operations pair poset powerset preorder preserves projection Proof Proposition pullback quotient representable functor right adjoint Sets Cop Sets/I Similarly slice category small category structure subobject classifier subset suppose surjective T-algebra terminal object theorem ultrafilter unique Yoneda embedding Yoneda lemma