[Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-31 Thread Dominic Steinitz
fero frantisek.kocun at gmail.com writes: What do you think about Categories and Computer Science (Cambridge Computer Science Texts) at http://www.amazon.com/Categories-Computer-Science-Cambridge- Texts/dp/0521422264/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product ? I couldn't see monads or the Yoneda lemma in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-30 Thread Nathan Bloomfield
If you want to see a human being explain some categorical ideas, there is a nice (and growing) collection of video mini-tutorials on youtube by the Catsters. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCatsters -Nathan Bloomfield (I first sent this just to Pierre by accident - sorry!)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-29 Thread Pierre-Evariste Dagand
Does _Conceptual Mathematics_ discuss monads? I'm currently working on it, I'm at section 13 with Monoids but there are no Monads at the horizon. I have briefly gone through the end of the book and did not recognize anything similar to a Monad. But I might not be able to recognize a Monad in a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:41:50 -0700 (PDT), fero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to buy some booke on category theory and its applications. Can you recommend me the best? Recently, I had to study some category theory in order to prepare for a local category theory study group meeting,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:04:17 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think about Categories and Computer Science (Cambridge Computer Science Texts) at http://www.amazon.com/Categories-Computer-Science-Cambridge-Texts/dp/0521422264/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product ? I haven't read

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-28 Thread frantisek kocun
Thanks Benjamin, especially for http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category_theory#See_also and I found there Haskell wiki. I will take a look at the books as well. Fero On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:04:17 +0900, Benjamin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-28 Thread Luke Palmer
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Category Theory Lecture Notes for ESSLLI Michael Barr, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University Charles Wells, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Best book/tutorial on category theory and its applications

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:52:43 -0700, Tim Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've only read the beginning, but I recommend _Conceptual Mathematics_ by Lawvere and Schanuel for a *very* gentle introduction (seriously, you could probably teach category theory to ten-year-olds out of this book.)