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Basic Category Theory by Jaap van Oosten

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Basic Category Theory
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Publisher: University of Utrecht
Number of pages: 88

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Contents: Categories and Functors; Natural transformations; (Co)cones and (Co)limits; A little piece of categorical logic; Adjunctions; Monads and Algebras; Cartesian closed categories and the lambda-calculus; Recursive Domain Equations.

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