Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part One Building up to Categories
- Interlude A Tour of Math
- Part Two Doing Category Theory
- Epilogue Thinking categorically
- Appendices
- Appendix A Background on alphabets
- Appendix B Background on basic logic
- Appendix C Background on set theory
- Appendix D Background on topological spaces
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Appendix A - Background on alphabets
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part One Building up to Categories
- Interlude A Tour of Math
- Part Two Doing Category Theory
- Epilogue Thinking categorically
- Appendices
- Appendix A Background on alphabets
- Appendix B Background on basic logic
- Appendix C Background on set theory
- Appendix D Background on topological spaces
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Summary
Some demystification of the letters used in mathematics, including when we tend to use lower case, upper case, blackboard bold, curly, or Greek letters, and when we use particular letters for particular things, or particular types of thing.
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- The Joy of AbstractionAn Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life, pp. 403Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022