| Description |
xiv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-417) and index (pages 420-424). |
| Contents |
Prologue: The status of mathematics ; Traditional mathematics : subjects ; Traditional mathematics : methods ; The content in this book ; Audience -- Building Up to Categories. Categories : the idea -- Abstraction -- Patterns -- Context -- Relationships -- Formalism -- Equivalence relations -- Categories : the definition -- Examples we've already seen, secretly -- Ordered sets -- Small mathematical structures -- Sets and functions -- Large worlds of mathematical structures -- Doing Category Theory. Isomorphisms -- Monics and epics -- Universal properties -- Duality -- Products and coproducts -- Pullbacks and pushouts -- Functors -- Categories of categories -- Natural transformations -- Yoneda -- Higher dimensions -- Epilogue: Thinking categorically -- Appendices: Background on alphabets ; Background on basic logic ; Background on set theory ; Background on topological spaces. |
| Summary |
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life - from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. The journey begins with the ideas and workings of abstract mathematics, after which you will gently climb toward more technical material, learning everything needed to understand category theory, and then key concepts in category theory like natural transformations, duality, and even a glimpse of ongoing research in higher-dimensional category theory. For fans of How to Bake Pi, this will help you dig deeper into mathematical concepts and build your mathematical background--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Mathematics.
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Categories (Mathematics)
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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Mathematics -- Social aspects.
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MATHEMATICS / Logic.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. (OCoLC)fst01002068
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Categories (Mathematics) (OCoLC)fst00849000
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Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
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Mathematics -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01012230
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| Genre/Form |
Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
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Informational works.
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| Added Title |
Exploration of math, category theory, and life |
| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781108769389 |
| ISBN |
1108477224 (hardcover) |
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9781108477222 (hardcover) |
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