Categories and Sheaves

• Main Authors: Kashiwara, Masaki (Author), Schapira, Pierre (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, A Series of Comprehensive Studies in Mathematics, 332
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).

Categories and sheaves, which emerged in the middle of the last century as an enrichment for the concepts of sets and functions, appear almost everywhere in mathematics nowadays. This book covers categories, homological algebra and sheaves in a systematic and exhaustive manner starting from scratch,...