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Adjoint Functors

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Adjoint functors describe a fundamental relationship of duality between two categories. You will understand how to identify left and right adjoints, construct natural isomorphisms, and apply these relationships to simplify algebraic structures and preserve limits and colimits.

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Lectures on Category Theory

Learn about adjoint functors with Martin Brandenburg's "Lectures on Category Theory"! This course offers a deep dive into this key topic.

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Category Theory

Learn adjoint functors with Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory course! Understand this key concept and advance your functional programming skills.

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nLab: Adjoint Functor

In-depth reference with definitions, examples, and references

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mathworld.wolfram.com

MathWorld is an online mathematics encyclopedia from Wolfram Research offering detailed, browsable articles on topics across the math spectrum, including algebra, geometry, calculus, and number theory. Each entry includes definitions, theorems, formulas, diagrams, worked examples, and links to further reading.

intermediate🇬🇧
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ocw.mit.edu

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, publicly accessible repository of MIT course materials across many disciplines, providing complete lecture notes, assignments, exams, and often video lectures from MIT courses. It includes math and other subjects, allowing self-paced study on topics such as group theory and beyond.

intermediate🇬🇧
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ncatlab.org

nLab is a collaborative online knowledge base for mathematics, focusing on category theory and related areas, with wiki-style pages containing definitions, explanations, and references. It covers topics from higher category theory and topos theory to algebraic geometry, homotopy theory, and derived geometry, featuring extensive cross-links and discussions.

intermediate🇬🇧

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