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Lawvere's - Conceptual Mathematics : A First Introduction to Categories (Paperback)

Apparently this is marketed an introduction to category theory for high-school students!!!

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Date: 2006-02-11 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bram.livejournal.com
It's pretty bizarre. Parts are quite easy, but you can be easy and yet abstract in a way that's hard to grasp. There's a lot of terminology in category theory that never became second nature to me. The presentation in the book--with students as characters, asking questions, and the conceit that Galileo and Descartes when they worked with coordinates were really dealing, while they didn't know it--with categories, is odd. It's like saying, hey, didn't you realize when you learned to count that you were dealing with set theory?

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Date: 2006-02-11 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kvschwartz.livejournal.com
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