The Joy of Abstraction

The Topos Institute is excited to announce a book club for The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng. This book is an introduction to category theory for anyone who wants to get into the formality of the subject but does not necessarily have the mathematical background to read a standard textbook. Part 1 starts gently, so that readers can build up to the formality of rigorous mathematics even if they haven’t encountered it before. Part 2 gets into formal rigorous category theory, including limits ...