Corelations in Network Theory

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

f: X \to Y

we can formally turn around the arrow to think of f as something going back from Y back to X. But this something is usually not a function: it’s called a ‘cof...

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