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Category Theory: A Gentle Introduction

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Category Theory: A Gentle Introduction
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Publisher: Logic Matters
Number of pages: 283

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I hope that what is here may prove useful to others starting to get to grips with category theory. This text is intended to be relatively accessible; in particular, it presupposes rather less mathematical background than some texts on categories.

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