From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3382 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen Davies" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: gentle introduction to CT? Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:19:05 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019271 8519 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:34:31 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Aug 10 20:37:10 2006 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:37:10 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1GBK0N-0007QP-Ir for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:31:59 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 15 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3382 Archived-At: Hello all, I'm a complete novice to Category Theory, and I'm looking for some kind of tutorial or other introductory material that would help me at least get up to speed with the basics. Maybe something that assumed some discrete math and abstract algebra, and proceeded to develop the topic for beginners. Are there any intro texts like that out there? (And if not, would someone please write and publish one? :->) Thanks, - Stephen Davies (stephen@umw.edu)