Categories for the Working Mathematician (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441931238)

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: 1441931236
ISBN-13: 9781441931238
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2010
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d