Xref: utzoo sci.math:12060 comp.theory:965 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ksuvax1!banerjee From: banerjee@ksuvax1 (Anindya Banerjee) Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.theory Subject: Re: Intro Category Theory? Message-ID: <1990Aug18.013734.29696@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 18 Aug 90 01:37:34 GMT References: Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Distribution: sci Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences Lines: 30 In article victor@vivaldi.itg.ti.com (Brian Victor) writes: >[Sorry if this was recently asked!] > >I have been starting to get into Category Theory, but find some of the books >rather dense. Are there any good intro books out there? My backround is CS >with some moderate mathematics (more enthusiasm than ability, I fear!). It >doesn't matter to me whether the texts are oriented towards math or CS. > >Thanks! > > >- Brian > victor@itg.ti.com A very recent (April-May 1990) book on Category Theory is: Abstract and Concrete Categories, by Jiri Adamek, Horst Herrlich and George Strecker. Published by John Wiley. I took a year-long course on Category Theory from George Strecker and we used drafts of the above-mentioned book. Since the class was introductory and consisted of a lot of computing scientists, George especially stressed the category of sets and the category of posets. The book is eminently readable (both for computing scientists and mathematicians), has excellent exercises and some new results. Wishing you a lot of fun, Categorically, --anindya