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Category Theory

Steve Awodey
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 
2010
Number of Pages: 
311
Format: 
Paperback
Edition: 
2
Series: 
Oxford Logic Guides 52
Price: 
55.00
ISBN: 
9780199237180
Category: 
Monograph
BLL Rating: 

The Basic Library List Committee suggests that undergraduate mathematics libraries consider this book for acquisition.

[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
08/11/2010
]

See Marion Cohen's review of the first edition. In addition to corrections of errors and typos, there are three main changes to this edition:

  • A new section on monoidal categories has been added.
  • "Dozens of new exercises" were added, with the intent of making the book more useful as a textbook.
  • It is in paperback at less than half the original price.

All the changes serve to make a very good book even better.


Fernando Q. Gouvêa is the editor of MAA Reviews.

 


Preface
1. Categories
2. Abstract Structures
3. Duality
4. Groups and Categories
5. Limits and Colimits
6. Exponentials
7. Naturality
8. Categories of Diagrams
9. Adjoints
10. Monads and Algrebras
References
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Index