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Category Theory in Context by Emily Riehl

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Category Theory in Context
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Number of pages: 258

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This concise, original text for a one-semester introduction to the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctions, monads, Kan extensions, and other topics.

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