Book:Saunders Mac Lane/Categories for the Working Mathematician

Saunders Mac Lane: Categories for the Working Mathematician
Published 1971, Springer. ISBN 0-387-90036-5

Second edition 1998, Springer. ISBN 0-387-98403-8

The second edition is the 5th title in the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series.

Subject Matter

 * Category Theory

Contents (Second Edition)

 * Preface to the Second Edition
 * Preface to the First Edition
 * Introduction
 * I. Categories, Functors, and Natural Transformations
 * II. Constructions on Categories
 * III. Universals and Limits
 * IV. Adjoints
 * V. Limits
 * VI. Monads and Algebras
 * VII. Monoids
 * VIII. Abelian Categories
 * IX. Special Limits
 * X. Kan Extensions
 * XI. Symmetry and Braiding in Monoidal Categories
 * XII. Structures in Categories
 * Appendix. Foundations
 * Table of Standard Categories: Objects and Arrows
 * Table of Terminology
 * Bibliography
 * Index