Category theory Uncommon

Origin: Latin suffix -ory

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Definitions

Noun

A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them.

See Also

categorify profunctor decategorification monodromy decategorified categorification mathematics semigroupoid

Related Terms

categorify profunctor decategorification monodromy decategorified categorification mathematics semigroupoid representation theory bicategory abstract nonsense faithful theorems abstraction coend adjoint functors

Rhyming Words

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