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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Mathematics
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Yoel Groman
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Yoel Groman
Course/Module description:
Introductory course in category theory for 3rd year undergraduate students and 1st year graduate students.
Course/Module aims:
Familiarity with the basic concepts and theorems of category theory and proficiency in the categorical language with emphasis on examples.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
See course aims.
Attendance requirements(%):
0
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Course/Module Content:
In the course we will discuss the basics of the language of categories:
1. Categories, functors, natural transformations, equivalence of categories
2. Universal properties, representable functors, Yoneda lemma.
3. Limits and colimits
4. Adjoint functors
We might also discuss some other topics and illustrations, for example abelian categories, sheaves, fundamental group, introduction to infinity categories, Morita equivalence.
Required Reading:
none
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Pay attention: The examination will be given as a home exam, for something like 1-3 days (starting from the exam date appearing in the Catalogue). In particular, there will be no "moed" b and special "moed".
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