A Sensible Introduction to Category Theory
Oliver Lugg Oliver Lugg
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 Published On Jun 22, 2022

Remember when I used a video with a coconut in the thumbnail to drive a stake through the heart of mathematical structure? Today, in this introduction to the basics of category theory, I attempt to remove it.

27 Unhelpful Facts About Category Theory:    • 27 Unhelpful Facts About Category Theory  
MetaMaths on category theory:    • Intuitive Introduction to Category Th...  

My dissertation on the equivalence between the category of monoidal categories and the category of representable multicategories: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hAkV...

FURTHER READING

Basic Category Theory (Tom Leinster): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.09375.pdf
Categories for the Working Mathematician (Saunders Mac Lane): http://www.mtm.ufsc.br/~ebatista/2016...
Category Theory for Computing Science (Michael Barr and Charles Wells): https://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples/Ba...
Category Theory for the Sciences (David Spivak): https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/CT4S.pdf
Bartosz Milewski on category theory:    • Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and P...  
Emily Riehl on category theory:    • What is Category Theory in mathematic...  

MUSIC

Meditation Aquatic
369 (Epidemic Sound)

Nights Full of Overthinking
Lionel Quick (Epidemic Sound)

Oregano
Vendla (Epidemic Sound)

Wash
Timothy Infinite (Epidemic Sound)

Wind
Osoku (Epidemic Sound)

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