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| Author | Saunders Mac Lane |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Graduate Texts in Mathematics; Vol. 5 |
| Subject | Category theory |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 262 |
| ISBN | 0-387-90036-5 |
| OCLC | 488352436 |
| 512.55 | |
| LC Class | LCC QA169.M33 |
Categories for the Working Mathematician (CWM) is a textbook in category theory written by American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane, who cofounded the subject together with Samuel Eilenberg. It was first published in 1971, and is based on his lectures on the subject given at the University of Chicago, the Australian National University, Bowdoin College, and Tulane University. It is widely regarded[1][2] as the premier introduction to the subject.
- ^ Leinster, Tom (2014). Basic Category Theory. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-139-99285-5. "The towering presence among category theory books is the classic one by one of its founders: Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician"
- ^ Awodey, Steve (2010). Category Theory. Oxford University Press. p. iv. ISBN 978-0-19-151382-4. "Why write a new textbook on Category Theory, when we already have Mac Lane’s Categories for the Working Mathematician? Simply put, because Mac Lane’s book is for the working (and aspiring) mathematician. What is needed now, after 30 years of spreading into various other disciplines and places in the curriculum, is a book for everyone else." Awodey also dedicated the book to Saunders Mac Lane.