[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-09 Thread L Spice
Mark Spezzano mark.spezzano at chariot.net.au writes: Does anyone know what Hom stands for? 'Hom' stands for 'homomorphism' --a way of changing (morphism) between two structures while keeping some information the same (homo-). Any algebra text will define morphisms aplenty --homomorphisms,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-06 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:16:03 -0800, Creighton Hogg wrote: 2010/2/2 Álvaro García Pérez agar...@babel.ls.fi.upm.es You may try Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists or Awodey's Category Theory, whose style is rather introductory. Both of them (I think) have a chapter about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-06 Thread briand
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:38:08 +0900 Benjamin L. Russell dekudekup...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:16:03 -0800, Creighton Hogg wrote: 2010/2/2 Álvaro García Pérez agar...@babel.ls.fi.upm.es You may try Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists or Awodey's

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Category Theory woes

2010-02-02 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Mark Spezzano mark.spezzano at chariot.net.au writes: Maybe there are books on Discrete maths or Algebra or Set Theory that deal more with Hom Sets and Hom Functions? Googling haskell category theory I got: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory