Re: Category Theory for the Sciences

[Marco Benini <marco.benini@gmail.com>]

Dear Michael,
I've received it a couple of days ago. I should write a review for
Zentralblatt math.

I've not yet seen how it applies CT to other sciences - apparently,
string theory does not appear in the book.
It is an introduction to (basic) CT with many examples and exercises
which try to apply the fundamental concepts in other fields.
As far as I've seen, there are many applications to computer science,
with some emphasis on databases. But, I had just a quick glimpse by
now...

All the best,
M


Dr Marco Benini
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
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On 29 January 2015 at 01:59, Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> A book of that name by David I. Spivak, Mathematics at MIT was recently
> published by the MIT Press.  Has anyone seen it?  Did it seem interesting.
> I wonder what kind of science outside of string theory would find CT
> useful.
>
> Michael
>
>


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