Lawvere, F. William Schanuel, Stephen H.
Conceptual Mathematics : A First Introduction To Categories - 2nd ed. - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009 - xviii;390 pb 9.5x6.5
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This book provides a skeleton key that makes explicit some concepts and procedures that are common to all branches of pure and applied mathematics. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by examples in these categories.
9780521719162
Categories (Mathematics)
511.3 / Law/Sch
Conceptual Mathematics : A First Introduction To Categories - 2nd ed. - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009 - xviii;390 pb 9.5x6.5
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This book provides a skeleton key that makes explicit some concepts and procedures that are common to all branches of pure and applied mathematics. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by examples in these categories.
9780521719162
Categories (Mathematics)
511.3 / Law/Sch