62:454 MATH 40 level

Category Theory

3 credit hours

An accessible introduction to category theory at the undergraduate level, with an emphasis on various specific categories of mathematical structures, including the following topics: Structured sets and their morphisms, including examples such as ordered sets, lattices, graphs, monoids, groups, and rings; categories; various examples of categories; products, equalizers, coproducts, and coequalizers, with examples in specific categories; functors, with various examples; natural transformations; universal arrows, with various examples such as free monoids and free semilattices; adjunctions; equivalence of categories

Prerequisite path

  1. 62:091
  2. 62:090
  3. 62:182
  4. 62:252
  5. 62:356
  6. 62:454

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