Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2007. jún. 25. - 367 oldal

Category theory is a general mathematical theory of structures and of structures of structures. It occupied a central position in contemporary mathematics as well as computer science. This book describes the history of category theory whereby illuminating its symbiotic relationship to algebraic topology, homological algebra, algebraic geometry and mathematical logic and elaboratively develops the connections with the epistemological significance.

 

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Poincaré Wittgenstein Peirce and the use of concepts
1
Formal definitions and language games
7
Category theory in Algebraic Topology
39
133
73
An axiomatic approach
76
Kans conceptual innovations
90
Grothendiecks work in relation to earlier work in homolog
128
Category theory in Algebraic Geometry
162
5
193
Unresistant examples
204
6
235
Categorial foundations
281
Pragmatism and category theory
303
A Abbreviations
317
Indexes
341
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