From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9064 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Leinster Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: "Basic Category Theory" free online Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 07:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: Reply-To: Tom Leinster NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483375001 3267 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2017 16:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 16:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Leinster To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Jan 02 17:36:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.7.28]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cO5b3-00086N-Uo for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:36:30 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:33761) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cO5Zf-00060g-QJ; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cO5Zg-0002ui-Kg for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:35:04 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9064 Archived-At: Dear all, My introductory textbook "Basic Category Theory" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. By arrangement with them, it's now also free online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09375 It's also freely *editable*, under a Creative Commons licence. For instance, if you want to teach a class from it but some of the examples aren't suitable, you can delete them or add your own. Or if you don't like the notation (and when have two category theorists ever agreed on that?), you can easily change the Latex macros. Just go the arXiv, download, and edit to your heart's content. There are lots of good introductions to category theory out there. The particular features of this one are: * It's short. * It doesn't assume much. * It sticks to the basics. Best wishes, Tom -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]