Handbook of Categorical Algebra: Volume 1, Basic Category Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521061193)

A Handbook of Categorical Algebra, in three volumes, is a detailed account of everything a mathematician needs to know about category theory. Each volume is self-contained and is accessible to graduate students with a good background in mathematics. Volume 1 is devoted to general concepts. After introducing the terminology and proving the fundamental results concerning limits, adjoint functors and Kan extensions, the categories of fractions are studied in detail; special consideration is paid to the case of localizations. The remainder of the first volume studies various "refinements" of the fundamental concepts of category and functor.

Author: Francis Borceux
ISBN-10: 0521061199
ISBN-13: 9780521061193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2008
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d