From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3396 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Brett G. Giles" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: gentle introduction to CT? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:13:40 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019278 8562 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:34:38 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Aug 14 18:05:37 2006 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:05:37 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1GCjTK-0000WY-K4 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:55:42 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 29 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3396 Archived-At: 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) >