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Category Theory

The mathematics of mathematics — made visual through 41 interactive demonstrations.

See also: Algebraic Geometry for schemes-as-functors and representable functors in practice, Algebraic Topology for the homology and homotopy functors that built the field, and Representation Theory for functors from groups to vector spaces.

  1. 01

    Objects & Morphisms

    The atoms of category theory: objects, arrows, and hom-sets

    4 demos
  2. 02

    Composition & Identity

    How arrows compose, identity morphisms, and associativity

    4 demos
  3. 03

    A Zoo of Categories

    Set, Grp, Top, Vect, and poset categories in action

    5 demos
  4. 04

    Functors

    Structure-preserving maps between categories

    4 demos
  5. 05

    Natural Transformations

    Morphisms between functors and the naturality square

    4 demos
  6. 06

    Products & Coproducts

    Universal properties, Cartesian products, and disjoint unions

    4 demos
  7. 07

    Limits & Colimits

    Cones, pullbacks, equalizers, and the limit zoo

    4 demos
  8. 08

    Adjunctions

    The most important concept: free-forgetful pairs and hom-set bijections

    4 demos
  9. 09

    The Yoneda Lemma

    You are what you relate to: representable functors and presheaves

    4 demos
  10. 10

    Monads & String Diagrams

    Monads from adjunctions and the string diagram calculus

    4 demos

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