Introduction to Category Theory

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• Paul Levy (University of Birmingham)
• Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:00-14:00
• Learning Centre - UG10.

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Categories are ubiquitous in mathematics and computer science. In the first part of the talk I’ll give the definition of a category and several examples:

• the category of towns and routes
• the category of sets and functions
• the category of natural numbers and real matrices
• the category of Java types and unary methods
• the category of students, preordered by success.

In the second part we’ll look at three categorical concepts: isomorphism, initial object and terminal object.

This talk is part of the SoCS PhD Research Training Sessions series.

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