Thank you for this suggestion. I do have this book. I found it to be a little lacking in some areas in that it felt like I was reading a student's lecture notes, not the professor's.
At some point, I'm left with questions that there's no one around to answer :-). This is why I'm trying to go deeper. I think it's a great one to have on your bookshelf though for quick refreshers! Dave 2010/9/8 Николай Кудасов <[email protected]> > Hi, Dave! > > Consider this book: > > *Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of > Computing)<http://www.amazon.com/Category-Computer-Scientists-Foundations-Computing/dp/0262660717>-- > *Benjamin C.Pierce > > This is at the moment the only book about category theory I've read, but it > was easy for me as for programmer rather than mathematician to understand > most of the stuff. Now I am reading "Categories for the Working > Mathematician" and just can't go further 50-60 pages, cause for > understanding rest of the book I must understand examples given in the book, > and those are mainly from group theory, topology and functional analysis. As > I am slightly familiar with any, first I need to learn some other > mathematics. > So if you are rather programmer than mathematician, I think you'd better > start with book I mentioned above. Otherwise you should stock up with lots > of books about less abstract mathematics =) > > With best regards, > Nick
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