Format:
1 online resource (xii, 390 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780511804199
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9780521894852
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9780521719162
Content:
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This book provides a skeleton key that makes explicit some concepts and procedures that are common to all branches of pure and applied mathematics. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by examples in these categories. This second edition provides links with more advanced topics of possible study. In the new appendices and annotated bibliography the reader will find concise introductions to adjoint functors and geometrical structures, as well as sketches of relevant historical developments.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521894852
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521894852
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511804199
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