Course details

Category Theory

TKD Acad. year 2010/2011 Winter semester

Current academic year

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Department

Study literature

  • J. Adámek, Matematické struktury a kategorie, SNTL, Praha, 1982
  • B.C. Pierce, Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991
  • R.F.C. Walters, Categories and Computer Science, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991

Fundamental literature

  • M. Barr, Ch. Wells: Category Theory for Computing Science, Prentice Hall, New York, 1990
  • B.C. Pierce: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991
  • R.F.C. Walters, Categories and Computer Science, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991

Syllabus of lectures

  • Graphs and categories
  • Algebraic structures as categories
  • Constructions on categories
  • Properties of objects and morphisms
  • Products and sums of objects
  • Natural numbers objects and deduction systems
  • Functors and diagrams
  • Functor categories, grammars and automata
  • Natural transformations
  • Limits and colimits
  • Adjoint functors
  • Cartesian closed categories and typed lambda-calculus
  • The cartesian closed category of Scott domains

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
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