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Introducing Categories

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For a list of all the posts on Category Theory, see the Main Content page. It is time for us to formally define what a category is, to see a wealth of examples. In our next post we’ll see how…

Introducing Categories #categories 2013-04-24 This article was ported from my old Wordpress blog here, If you see any issues with the rendering or layout, please send me an email . For a list of all the posts on Category Theory, see the Main Content page. It is time for us to formally define what a category is, to see a wealth of examples. In our next post we’ll see how the definitions laid out here translate to programming constructs. As we’ve said in our soft motivational post on categories , the point of category theory is to organize mathematical structures across various disciplines into

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