BASIC CATEGORY THEORY FOR COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
by
BENJAMIN C. PIERCE
(MIT Press,1991)


BASIC CONSTRUCTIONS
	Categories
	Diagrams
	Monomorphisms, Epimorphisms, and Isomorphisms
	Initial and Terminal Objects
	Products
	Universal Constructions
	Equalizers
	Pullbacks
	Limits
	Exponentiation

FUNCTORS, NATURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
	Functors
	F-Algebras
	Natural Transformations
	Adjoints

APPLICATIONS
	Cartesian Closed Categories
	Implicit Conversions and Generic Operators
	Programming Language Semantics
	Recursive Domain Equations

FURTHER READING
	Textbooks
	Introductory Articles
	Reference Books
	Selected Research Articles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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