Categories for the Working Mathematician (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780387984032)

This new edition of Categories for the Working Mathematician includes a number of revisions and additions, including two new chapters on topics of active interest. One is on symmetric monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories and the coherence theorems for them. The second describes 2-categories and the higher dimensional categories which have recently come into prominence. The bibliography has also been expanded to cover some of the many other recent advances concerning categories.

Author: Saunders Mac Lane
ISBN-10: 0387984038
ISBN-13: 9780387984032
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/25/1998
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.34w x 0.90d