Department of Mathematics, Statistics
and Computer Science
Wim Ruitenburg's Spring 2007 MATH198.1003 Syllabus: Introduction to
Category Theory
- OBJECTIVES: Understand and be able to use common structural powers of
category theory.
- CLASS PLACE AND TIME: CU327, TuTh 2 and 3
- INSTRUCTOR: Wim Ruitenburg
- PREREQUISITES: Consent of instructor.
- BOOK: Saunders Mac Lane, Categories for the Working Mathematician,
Second Edition.
Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
Springer-Verlag, 1971 - 1998.
ISBN: 0387984038
- GRADES will be determined by performance on exams.
- ATTENDANCE POLICY: You are expected to attend all classes for their full
periods.
- ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: See the undergraduate and graduate bulletins.
- SEMESTER outline: We essentially cover chapters 1 through 6 of the book.
Last updated: February 2007
Comments & suggestions:
wimr@mscs.mu.edu