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020 _a9781107010871 (hardback)
020 _a110701087X (hardback)
020 _a0521283043
020 _a9780521283045
082 0 0 _a512.62
_bSIM/I
100 1 _aSimmons, Harold
245 1 3 _aIntroduction to category theory /
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _aix, 226 p. :
_bill. ;
520 _a"As it says on the front cover this book is an introduction to Category Theory. It gives the basic definitions, goes through the various associated gadgetry such as functors, natural transformations, limits and colimits, and then explains adjunctions. This material could be developed in 50 pages or so, but here it takes some 220 pages. That is because there are many examples illustrating the various notions, some rather straightforward, and others with more content. More importantly, there are also over 200 exercises"--
650 0 _aCategories (Mathematics)
_aMathematics
942 _cBK
999 _c34054
_d34054