Emily Riehl

Elements of 8-Category Theory (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops the theory of infinite-dimensional categories by studying the universe, or 8-cosmos, in which they live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108952194
• Artikelnr.: 66183920

Autorenporträt

Emily Riehl is an associate professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago and was a Benjamin Peirce and NSF postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She is the author of Categorical Homotopy Theory (Cambridge, 2014) and Category Theory in Context (2016), and a co-author of Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 (Cambridge, 2019). She and her present co-author have published ten articles over the course of the past decade that develop the new mathematics appearing in this book.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Basic
-Category Theory: 1.
-Cosmoi and their homotopy 2-categories; 2. Adjunctions, limits, and colimits I; 3. Comma
-categories; 4. Adjunctions, limits, and colimits II; 5. Fibrations and Yoneda's lemma; 6. Exotic
-cosmoi; Part II. The Calculus of Modules: 7. Two-sided fibrations and modules; 8. The calculus of modules; 9. Formal category theory in a virtual equipment; Part III. Model Independence: 10. Change-of-model functors; 11. Model independence; 12. Applications of model independence.