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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