Towards Higher Categories

The purpose of this book is to give background for those who would like to delve into some higher category theory. It is not a primer on higher category theory itself. It begins with a paper by John Baez and Michael Shulman which explores informally, by analogy and direct connection, how cohomology...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Baez, John C. (Editor), May, J. Peter (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
Series:The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 152
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Table of Contents:
  • Lectures on -Categories and Cohomology
  • A Survey of (#x221E;, 1)-Categories
  • Internal Categorical Structures in Homotopical Algebra
  • A 2-Categories Companion
  • Notes on 1- and 2-Gerbes
  • An Australian Conspectus of Higher Categories.