On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:41:50 -0700 (PDT), fero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi, >I would like to buy some booke on category theory and its applications. Can >you recommend me the best? Recently, I had to study some category theory in order to prepare for a local category theory study group meeting, and after some comparison, settled on the following relatively short set (128 pp.) of notes, condensed from a much thicker book (303 pp.) on category theory: Category Theory Lecture Notes for ESSLLI Michael Barr, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University Charles Wells, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University http://www.math.upatras.gr/~cdrossos/Docs/B-W-LectureNotes.pdf The above-mentioned lecture notes were condensed from the following book, and then rearranged to present category theory from a computer science perspective: Toposes, Triples and Theories by Michael Barr and Charles Wells http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/wells/pub/ttt.html According to the above-referenced home page for this book: > The original book, Grundlehren der math. Wissenschaften 278. Springer-Verlag, > 1983, is now out of print. A revised and corrected version is now available > free for downloading. An even shorter book on category theory is the following: A Gentle Introduction to Category Theory - the calculational approach by Maarten M Fokkinga http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~fokkinga/mmf92b.html However, I did not prefer the above book, despite its brevity, because unlike the other two titles, it did not including any specific material on monads. >What do you think about "Categories and Computer Science (Cambridge Computer >Science Texts)" at >http://www.amazon.com/Categories-Computer-Science-Cambridge-Texts/dp/0521422264/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product >? I haven't read it, so I would need to review it before giving an opinion. I shall keep it in mind, however; thank you for the reference. -- Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe