On 5 Jul, Richard Dybowski wrote:
I would be grateful if members of this list could give me their recommendations for introductory books on category theory. In particular, what is your opinion of "Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories" by Lawvere and Schanuel?
Richard
If you read french, you can try my diploma work at http://iiun.unine.ch/people/mamiguet/index.html (third downloadable ps file) It is intended to be a manageable introduction to CT for undergraduate french-speaking science students (yes, that's true, especially computer science students). I tried to keep the examples simple (vector spaces, graphs, etc.) It's highly inspired by Barr&Wells' book, but meant to be a little bit more simple (and less complete). If you try it, please let me know if you find it useful. Matthieu 12-Jul-2001 07:40:35 -0300,886;000000000000-0000001a