Category Theory Lecture Notes
by Daniele Turi
Publisher: University of Edinburgh 2001
Number of pages: 61
Description:
These notes were written for an eighteen lectures course in category theory. The course was designed to be self-contained, drawing most of the examples from category theory itself. It was intended for post-graduate students in theoretical computer science.
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