Category Theory 2016/2017
This is the website for the course on ``Category Theory'' which will be offered at the University of Amsterdam in April and May 2017.
Exercise sheets, homework sheets and information about grading can be found here.
Teaching staff
- Lecturer: Benno van den Berg
Email: bennovdberg@gmail.com
Room: ILLC, Science Park F2.43- Teaching assistant: Andrew Swan
Room: ILLC, Science Park F2.40
Email: a.w.swan@uva.nl
Aim
Aim is to introduce students to the main concepts and techniques of category theory.
Description
In this course we will give a general introduction to the methods and results of category theory. More concretely, we will cover the following topics:
- Categories, functors, natural transformations
- Limits and colimits
- Adjoint functors
- Monads
- Presheaves
- Yoneda lemma
Practical details
This course is offered in weeks 14-21 with an exam in week 22 of 2017. During weeks 14 - 21 there will be two lectures and two exercise class per week. The lectures are on Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 in SP D1.110 and Thursdays 11:00-13:00 in SP D1.116. The exercise class are on Wednesdays 15:00-17:00 in SP A1.30 (except for week 19 when it will be in SP G0.05) and Fridays 9:00-11:00 in SP A1.30. (Note that the following days are holidays: April 14, April 27, April 28, May 5, May 25 and May 26).
So the first meeting will be on 4 March 13:00 in the lecture hall D1.110 at the Science Park of the University of Amsterdam.
Exam
The exam will take place on Wednesday 31 May 9:00-12:00 in SP F1.02. A date for a resit has not yet been scheduled.
Study materials
- Steve Awodey, Category Theory, second edition. Oxford Logic Guides 52, 2010.
Prerequisites
We assume that participants in the course possess the mathematical maturity as can be expected from students in mathematics or logic at the MSc level.
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