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• Categories and functors. Universal objects.
• Natural transformations.  Adjoint functors and equivalences.
• Dualities: Stone, Gelfand, Pontryagin.

Course material

• Harold Simmons. An Introduction to Category Theory. (2011) Cambridge University Press.
• Saunders Mac Lane. Categories for the Working Mathematician (Second edition). Springer.

Homework

• Homework set 1
• Homework 2: prove that the three definitions of adjoint functors are equivalent. Skip the easiest details.

Practicalities

• Lecturer: Luca Spada
• Length of the course: 10 hours.

Dates/rooms:

• Lectures will take place is Sala Riunioni, Department of Mathematics.
• Lectures will be scheduled as follows:
  • Tuesday 17 of January, from 11:00 to 13:00;
  • Thursday 19 of January, from 11:00 to 13:00;
  • Tuesday 24 of January, from 11:00 to 13:00;
  • Thursday 26 of January, from 11:00 to 13:00;
  • Tuesday 7 of February, from 11:00 to 13:00;

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