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By (author) Riehl Emily

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Introduction to concepts of category theory ― categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctive, monads ― revisits a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective. 2016 edition.

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Derived from courses the author taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, this original book introduces the concepts of category theory ― categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctive, monads ― and other topics, revisiting a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective. Basic set theory and logic are the only prerequisites.

Biographical note:
Emily Riehl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011 and was a Benjamin Pierce and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2011-15. She is also the author of Categorical Homotopy Theory.