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Category Theory (WiSe 2026/27)

Lecture 2 hours, Xu; exercises 2 hours, Guerdi, Maio, Xu.

A large part of the exercises will be selected from the book Category Theory by Awodey.

Content

The lecture is a first introduction to category theory, following the book Category Theory by Awodey. This is a mathematics textbook but it is very self-contained. Familiarity to algebraic structures will be helpful, but is not a requirement, in order to follow this course.

Time and Place

TBA

Online Platforms

Announcements will be published via Moodle.

Zulip Stream #TCS-26W27-CT

Material

The lecture follows the book

• Steve Awodey: Category Theory, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press, 2006

Hand-written notes will be made available during the course of the semester.

This is the first time that this course is offered at the LMU, so there is no previous exam. A mock exam is available to help you practice. See Mock Exam below.

Additional resources:

• Tom Leinster, Basic Category Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2014

• Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context, Dover Publications Inc., 2016

• Bartosz Milewski, Category Theory for Programmers, 2023

Tentative Plan

Exams

• Mock Exam
• Mock Exam Solution