Elementary categories, elementary toposes

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Elementary categories, elementary toposes

Colin McLarty

(Oxford logic guides, 21)

Clarendon Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The book covers elementary aspects of category theory and topos theory. It has few mathematical prerequisites, and uses categorical methods throughout rather than beginning with set theoretic foundations. It works with key notions such as Cartesian closedness, adjunctions, regular categories, and the internal logic of a topos. Full statements and elementary proofs are given for the central theorems, including the fundamental theorem of toposes, the sheafification theorem, and the construction of Grothendieck toposes over any topos as base. Three chapters discuss applications of toposes in detail, namely to sets, to basic differential geometry, and to recursive analysis.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Categories: Rudimentary structures in a category
  • Products, equalizers, and their duals
  • Groups
  • Sub-objects, pullbacks, and limits
  • Relations
  • Cartesian closed categories
  • Product operators and others
  • Part II The category of categories: Functors and categories
  • Natural transformations
  • Adjunctions
  • Slice categories
  • Mathematical foundations
  • Part III Toposes: Basics
  • The internal language
  • A soundness proof for topos logic
  • From the internal language to the topos
  • The fundamental theorem
  • External semantics
  • Natural number objects
  • Categories in a topos
  • Topologies
  • Part IV Some toposes: Sets
  • Synthetic differential geometry
  • The effective topos
  • Relations in regular categories.

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  • NCID
    BA17219629
  • ISBN
    • 0198533926
  • LCCN
    91036574
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 265 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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