Category theory reduces a large chunk of math to the clever manipulation of arrows. One of the fun things about this is that you can often take a familiar mathematical construction, think of it category-theoretically, and just turn around all the arrows to get something new and interesting!
In math we love functions. If we have a function
we can formally turn around the arrow to think of
as something going back from
back to
. But this something is usually not a function: it’s called a ‘cof...
Published on February 01, 2016 18:00