Category Theory in Context

Description

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.

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.