by auggierose
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- There is something about category theory that just puts me to sleep. I cannot count the number of times I picked up a category theory text, full of best intentions, started reading, and ... woke up a few hours later.
Dozens of diagrams pointing here and there don't help. It is somehow as if the abstractness of category theory is abstract in the wrong way for me.
by hackandthink
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- An amazing book that takes a clear and descriptive path to topos theory.
If you want to take it a little slower, you can start with Lawvere's
"Conceptual Mathematics"
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780511590092_A23569...
by xanderlewis
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- This is a very fun book, and an unusual one too. Especially for a concept that even many pure mathematicians find abstract.
- > Sheaves are mathematical constructions concerned with passages from local properties to global ones
Sounds interesting. Could someone elaborate on that?
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