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3 unusual facts about Category theory


Category theory

Category theory is also, in some sense, a continuation of the work of Emmy Noether (one of Mac Lane's teachers) in formalizing abstract processes; Noether realized that in order to understand a type of mathematical structure, one needs to understand the processes preserving that structure.

More recent efforts to introduce undergraduates to categories as a foundation for mathematics include William Lawvere and Rosebrugh (2003) and Lawvere and Stephen Schanuel (1997) and Mirroslav Yotov (2012).

Universal logic

Three model-theoretic directions for universal logic have been explored to some depth: abstract model theory axiomatized by Jon Barwise, a topological / categorical approach based on sketches (sometimes called categorical model theory), and yet another categorical approach based on Goguen and Burstall's notion of institution.



see also

André Joyal

A. Joyal, Ross Street, An introduction to Tannaka duality and quantum groups, Category theory (Como, 1990), 413—492, Lecture Notes in Math.

Natural mapping

Natural transformation in category theory, a branch of abstract mathematics