Monoidal Topology
Subtitle: A Categorical Approach to Order, Metric, and Topology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781107063945
Subjects: Semigroups; Group theory
Description: "Monoidal Topology describes an active research area that, after various past proposals on how to axiomatize "spaces" in terms of convergence, began to emerge at the beginning of the millennium. It combines Barr's relational presentation of topological spaces in terms of ultrafilter convergence with Lawvere's interpretation of metric spaces as small categories enriched over the extended real half-line"--