by Lutz Schröder
Abstract:
Category theory plays an important role as a unifying agent in a rapidly expanding universe of mathematics. In this paper, an introduction is given to the basic definitions of category theory, as well as to more advanced concepts such as adjointness, factorization systems and cartesian closedness.
Reference:
Lutz Schröder: Categories: a free tour, Chapter in Austin Melton, Jürgen Koslowski, eds.: Categorical Perspectives, pp. 1–27, Birkhäuser; Basel, 2001. [preprint]
Bibtex Entry:
@InCollection{Schroder01a,
author = {Lutz Schr{\"o}der},
title = {Categories: a free tour},
year = {2001},
editor = {Austin Melton and J{\"u}rgen Koslowski},
booktitle = {Categorical Perspectives},
publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user; Basel},
pages = {1--27},
keywords = {category factorization cartesian closed introduction},
comment = {<a href="http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~schroeder/papers/freetour.ps">[preprint]</a>},
abstract = {Category theory plays an important role as a unifying agent in a rapidly expanding universe of mathematics. In this paper, an introduction is given to the basic definitions of category theory, as well as to more advanced concepts such as adjointness, factorization systems and cartesian closedness.
},
status = {Other}
}