- abstraction, category theory, Metamathematics, Mathematics
If mathematics is the queen of science, this book explains why category theory is the queen of mathematics.
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Contemporary, warm, cool and spare.
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About the book
- Author
- Eugenia Cheng
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Basic Books, HighBridge Audio
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781622316687
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Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician and concert pianist. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Amandapbk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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