The Joy of Abstraction
Book description
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Joy of Abstraction as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
From a strictly philosophical perspective, the emergence of category theory as a unifying paradigm rivaling set theory is probably the most important development in mathematics in the last half-century.
But for philosophers without a lot of mathematical background, learning even its rudiments can be daunting. Among many introductory texts (Lawvere and Schanuel, Awodey, Riehl, Spivak), Cheng’s book stands out as perhaps the friendliest and most accessible.
She does not forego rigor, but she isn’t afraid to put aside precise formalism when necessary for intuition and clearer understanding. Her book takes the reader from mathematical beginnings through category theory’s core constructions…
From Rocco's list on mathematics for the philosophically inclined.
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