Comments on: Category Theory: useful or not? http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/archives/2006/06/category-theory-useful-or-not/ somewhere near the beginning. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Alex http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/archives/2006/06/category-theory-useful-or-not/#comment-44079 Alex Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:34:46 +0000 http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/archives/2006/06/category-theory-useful-or-not#comment-44079 Thanks for the link... from the name I was expecting a short tutorial, but a manuscript works too :) Thanks for the link… from the name I was expecting a short tutorial, but a manuscript works too :)

]]> By: Daniel McLaury http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/archives/2006/06/category-theory-useful-or-not/#comment-43952 Daniel McLaury Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:09:05 +0000 http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/archives/2006/06/category-theory-useful-or-not#comment-43952 Check out The Joy of Cats at http://katmat.math.uni-bremen.de/acc/acc.pdf for some examples of exactly the sort of thing you're asking about. As a quick example, if you're familiar with the concept of a "dual" in any sense, i.e. the dual space of a vector space, that comes from category theory. Check out The Joy of Cats at http://katmat.math.uni-bremen.de/acc/acc.pdf for some examples of exactly the sort of thing you’re asking about.

As a quick example, if you’re familiar with the concept of a “dual” in any sense, i.e. the dual space of a vector space, that comes from category theory.

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