functors which are sufficiently good approximations for certain purposes. The calculus of functors was developed by Thomas Goodwillie in a series of three...
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Thomas Goodwillie (mathematician) (category Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty)
especially famous for developing the concept of the calculus of functors, often also named Goodwillie calculus. While studying at Harvard University, Goodwillie...
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are polynomial functors from V {\displaystyle {\mathcal {V}}} to V {\displaystyle {\mathcal {V}}} ; these two are also Schur functors. The notion appears...
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localization See Bousfield localization. calculus of functors The calculus of functors is a technique of studying functors in the manner similar to the way a...
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called sentence-functors, and logical connectives are also called truth-functors. An argument is defined as a pair of things, namely a set of sentences, called...
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functors: for instance, a differentiable manifold is also a topological manifold, and a differentiable map is also continuous, so there is a functor Diff...
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Combinatory logic (redirect from Combinator calculus)
(1972) survey the early history of combinatory logic. For a more modern treatment of combinatory logic and the lambda calculus together, see the book by Barendregt...
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(i.e. sets of morphisms between objects) give rise to important functors to the category of sets. These functors are called hom-functors and have numerous...
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Category theory (redirect from Categorical point of view)
contravariant functor acts as a covariant functor from the opposite category Cop to D. A natural transformation is a relation between two functors. Functors often...
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typed lambda calculus ( λ → {\displaystyle \lambda ^{\to }} ), a form of type theory, is a typed interpretation of the lambda calculus with only one...
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Monad (functional programming) (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
adjunction of any functor with its inverse. Category theory views these collection monads as adjunctions between the free functor and different functors from...
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Categorial grammar (redirect from Lambek calculus)
grammar shares some features with the simply typed lambda calculus. Whereas the lambda calculus has only one function type A → B {\displaystyle A\rightarrow...
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examples of mappings that are invertible up to homotopy; and so large classes of homotopy equivalent spaces[clarification needed]. Calculus of fractions...
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semantic values can be interpreted, transferred also for functors (except for intensional functors, they have only intension). As mentioned, motivations...
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Ismar Volić (category Year of birth missing (living people))
homology of spaces of long knots in codimension >2", with P. Lambrechts and V. Turchin, Geometry & Topology, 14 (2010), 2151–2187. "Calculus of functors, operad...
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confused with other uses of the word "functor" throughout mathematics, see Functor (disambiguation). In the untyped lambda calculus, all functions are higher-order;...
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Immersion (mathematics) (category Maps of manifolds)
dimension, as in knot theory. It is studied categorically via the "calculus of functors" by Thomas Goodwillie Archived 2009-11-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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rational calculations. Goodwillie, motivated by his "calculus of functors", conjectured the existence of a theory intermediate to K-theory and Hochschild...
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Algebraic logic (redirect from Calculus of relations)
Willard Quine, 1976, "Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors" pages 283 to 307 in The Ways of Paradox, Harvard University Press. Historical perspective...
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Cartesian closed category (category Lambda calculus)
Cat of all small categories (with functors as morphisms) is Cartesian closed; the exponential CD is given by the functor category consisting of all functors...
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First-order logic (redirect from First-order predicate calculus)
logic, also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, or quantificational logic, is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy...
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Yoneda lemma (redirect from Yoneda functor)
theory. It allows the embedding of any locally small category into a category of functors (contravariant set-valued functors) defined on that category. It...
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doi:10.1007/BF01220869. S2CID 124051153. Świrszcz, Tadeusz (1974). "Monadic functors and convexity". Bulletin l'Académie Polonaise des Science, Série des Sciences...
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Currying (category Lambda calculus)
Saunders; Moerdijk, Ieke (1992). "Chapter I. Categories of Functors; sections 7. Propositional Calculus, 8. Heyting Algebras, and 9. Quantifiers as Adjoints"...
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Sheaf (mathematics) (redirect from Global section functor)
same as a contravariant functor from O ( X ) {\displaystyle O(X)} to C {\displaystyle C} . Morphisms in this category of functors, also known as natural...
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Apply (category Adjoint functors)
from lambda calculus, such as LISP and Scheme, and also in functional languages. It has a role in the study of the denotational semantics of computer programs...
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representing objects of the functors D i f f k {\displaystyle \mathrm {Diff} _{k}} and related functors. Seen from this point of view calculus may in fact be...
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Michael Winter have illustrated the method of lifting traditional logical expressions of topology to calculus of relations in their book Relational Topology...
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Natural transformation (category Functors)
isomorphism (or sometimes natural equivalence or isomorphism of functors). Two functors F {\displaystyle F} and G {\displaystyle G} are called naturally...
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Function (mathematics) (redirect from F of x)
Historically, the concept was elaborated with the infinitesimal calculus at the end of the 17th century, and, until the 19th century, the functions that...
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