Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780191612558, 0191612553. Steve Awodey. 336 pages Paperback 234x156mm In Stock. All Rights Reserved. A comprehensive reference to category theory for students and researchers in mathematics, computer science, logic, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy. This year the conference will take place on July 6-10, 2020. June 2010. Category theory formalizes mathematical structure and its concepts in terms of a labeled directed graph called a category, whose nodes are called objects, and whose labelled directed edges are called arrows (or morphisms). cartesian closed categories, Steve Awodey, author Steve Awodey, Category Theory, Oxford Logic Guides 49 (OUP 2nd end 2010: downloadable version here). Oxford Logic Guides. An extra topic of cartesian closed categories and the lambda-calculus is also provided. 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June 2010. adjoints, or login to access all content. 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. Category Theory 2nd Edition by Steve Awodey and Publisher OUP Oxford. limits and colimits, Paperback This book is a text and reference book on Category Theory, a branch of abstract algebra. It provides full proofs of all the important propositions and theorems, and aims to make the basic ideas, theorems, and methods of Category Theory understandable. Second Edition. representables, Second Edition. A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively, and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568612.001.0001. - Pere Pascual, EMS Newsletter. The research part of the school will be held during the week June 29-July 3, 2020. Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, "The book is well organised and very well written. The material covered includes the standard core of categories; functors; natural transformations; equivalence; limits a ... More. Carnegie Mellon University. Category Theory. The material covered includes the standard core of categories; functors; natural transformations; equivalence; limits and colimits; functor categories; representables; Yoneda's lemma; adjoints; and monads. Oxford Logic Guides. Useful for self-study and as a course text, the book includes all basic definitions and theorems (with full proofs), as well as numerous examples and exercises. 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