<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Mark Spezzano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.spezzano@chariot.net.au">mark.spezzano@chariot.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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Has anyone else found it frustratingly difficult to find details on easy-to-diget material on Category theory. The Chapter that I'm stuck on is actually labeled Preliminaries and so I reason that if I can't <br></blockquote>
<div><br>I've looked through at least a dozen. For neophytes, the best of the bunch BY FAR is Goldblatt, <a href="http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=math;cc=math;q1=Goldblatt;view=toc;idno=gold010">Topoi: the categorial analysis of logic</a> . Don't be put off by the title. He not only explains the stuff, but he explains the problems that motivated the invention of the stuff. He doesn't cover monads, but he covers all the basics very clearly, so once you've got that down you can move to another author for monads.<br>
<br>-gregg<br></div></div>