Thank you for this suggestion. I do have this book. I found it to be a little lacking in some areas in that it felt like I was reading a student's lecture notes, not the professor's.<div><br></div><div>At some point, I'm left with questions that there's no one around to answer :-). This is why I'm trying to go deeper. I think it's a great one to have on your bookshelf though for quick refreshers!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/8 ξΙΛΟΜΑΚ λΥΔΑΣΟΧ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crazy.fizruk@gmail.com">crazy.fizruk@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi, Dave!<br><br>Consider this book:<br><br><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px"><h1 style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:1.7em;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px">
<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px"><span><span><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:small"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Category-Computer-Scientists-Foundations-Computing/dp/0262660717" target="_blank">Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing)</a> --</b></span></font>Benjamin C.Pierce<br>
<br>This is at the moment the only book about category theory I've read, but it was easy for me as for programmer rather than mathematician to understand most of the stuff. Now I am reading "Categories for the Working Mathematician" and just can't go further 50-60 pages, cause for understanding rest of the book I must understand examples given in the book, and those are mainly from group theory, topology and functional analysis. As I am slightly familiar with any, first I need to learn some other mathematics.<br>
So if you are rather programmer than mathematician, I think you'd better start with book I mentioned above. Otherwise you should stock up with lots of books about less abstract mathematics =)<br><br></span></span></span></h1>
<h1 style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:1.7em;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px"><span><span>With best regards,<br>
Nick</span></span></span></h1></span>
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