Towards Higher Categories

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baez, John C. (Editor), May, J. Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 152
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Topology.; Algebraic topology.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Algebraic Topology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1524-5

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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Lectures on n-categories and cohomology
• A survey of (1, 1)-categories
• Internal categorical structures in homotopical algebra
• A 2-categories companion
• Notes on 1- and 2-gerbes
• An Australian conspectus of higher categories
• IMA summer program participants.