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Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra.

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What is an intuitive view of adjoints? (version 1: category theory)

The example I would give a five-year old is the following. Take the category $\mathbb R$ whose objects are the real numbers (or perhaps rational numbers for the five-year old) and a single morphism …
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