I should probably add that I am trying various proofs that involve injective and surjective properties of Hom Sets and Hom functions.
Does anyone know what Hom stands for? I need a text for a newbie. Mark On 02/02/2010, at 9:56 PM, Mark Spezzano wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to learn Haskell and have come across Monads. I kind of understand > monads now, but I would really like to understand where they come from. So I > got a copy of Barr and Well's Category Theory for Computing Science Third > Edition, but the book has really left me dumbfounded. It's a good book. But > I'm just having trouble with the proofs in Chapter 1--let alone reading the > rest of the text. > > Are there any references to things like "Hom Sets" and "Hom Functions" in the > literature somewhere and how to use them? The only book I know that uses them > is this one. > > Has anyone else found it frustratingly difficult to find details on > easy-to-diget material on Category theory. The Chapter that I'm stuck on is > actually labelled Preliminaries and so I reason that if I can't do this, then > there's not much hope for me understanding the rest of the book... > > Maybe there are books on Discrete maths or Algebra or Set Theory that deal > more with Hom Sets and Hom Functions? > > Thanks, > > Mark Spezzano. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
