From: "Brett G. Giles" <gilesb@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: gentle introduction to CT?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:13:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GCjTK-0000WY-K4@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Hi Stephen
There are numerous books on Category Theory, but only one I can think of
fits your criteria. You may want to look at:
Conceptual Mathematics
by F.W. Lawvere and S. H. Schanuel
ISBN 0-521-47817-0 (paperback)
It gives a good thorough intro to the subject.
Online and free is "A Gentle Introduction to Category Theory" by Maarten
Fokkinga at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~fokkinga/mmf92b.html
Depending on your math background, you may find the second a little fast
paced.
Good luck
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:19 -0400, Stephen Davies wrote:
> 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)
>
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