7.11am
Friday
24 December
2004
Christmas Eve
If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
That line has a tendancy towards ripping out my heart. How much is perfect? How happy can a person be?
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I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. |
If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I
would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working
Mathematician.