Category Theory Course Notes

My grad students and I have been using a lot of category theory in our work on networks in engineering, chemistry and biology. So I decided to teach an introductory course on category theory, and it was surprisingly popular: 25 grad students registered for it! Clearly there’s a lot of interest in the subject, and we don’t regularly teach a course on it at U. C. Riverside.

Here are the notes from my course. In my earlier fall Fall 2015 seminar, I had tried to explain how category theory unifi...