Timeline for Is Mac Lane still the best place to learn category theory?
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| Apr 24, 2015 at 14:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Nov 17, 2011 at 15:52 | history | edited | Giorgio Mossa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 16:27 | history | edited | Giorgio Mossa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 13:43 | comment | added | David White | I'm a big fan of Borceux's Handbook of Categorical Algebra 1. Rarely have I had a question about categories which it has been unable to answer. | |
| Sep 5, 2011 at 17:55 | history | edited | Giorgio Mossa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 8:21 | comment | added | Mike Shulman | I agree 100% with Todd's comments that one definitely needs a solid grounding in 1-category theory before learning higher category theory. As far as a textbook for 1-category theory goes, I'm fond of Awodey's book. ACC is good too, but also rather idiosyncratic (in different ways than Mac Lane). | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 19:37 | comment | added | Spice the Bird | The first chapter of Leinster's Higher operads, higher categories gives a nice and quick introduction to category theory. I learned alot from there. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 19:35 | comment | added | Spice the Bird | See (math.harvard.edu/~lurie/papers/moduli.pdf) For the ICM address. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 15:17 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | Depending on OP's interests, HTT might not be the place to start on higher category theory. I found "On the Classification of TQFTs" more readable, because Lurie doesn't there try to give all detailed definitions, just outline a theory. "Higher Algebra" is supposed to be a follow-up to HTT, and uses much of the machinery developed there, but I liked it better because it's more about algebra; for an overview of some of this material, Lurie's ICM address isn't bad. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 14:46 | history | answered | Giorgio Mossa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |