Higher Topos Theory
by Jacob Lurie
Publisher: Princeton University Press 2009
ISBN/ASIN: 0691140499
ISBN-13: 9780691140490
Number of pages: 943
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Jacob Lurie presents the foundations of higher category theory, using the language of weak Kan complexes introduced by Boardman and Vogt, and shows how existing theorems in algebraic topology can be reformulated and generalized in the theory's new language.
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