Towards Higher Categories

• 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
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Topology.; Algebraic topology.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Algebraic Topology.

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...