Applications of Categories in Computer Science
Applications of category theory and related topics of mathematics to computer science have been a growing area in recent years. This book contains selected papers on the subject from the London Mathematical Society Symposium held at the University of Durham in July 1991.
- Potentially wide market - relevant to computer scientists as well as mathematicians
Product details
June 1992Paperback
9780521427265
352 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.505kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Computational comonads and intensional semantics S. Brookes and S. Geva
- Weakly distributed categories J. R. B. Cockett and R. A. G. Seely
- Sequentiality and full abstraction P.-L. Curien
- Remarks on algebraically compact categories P. J. Freyd
- Dinaturality for free P. J. Freyd, E. P. Robinson and G. Rosolini
- Simply typed and untyped l-calculus revisited B. Jacobs
- Modelling reduction in confluent categories C. B. Jay
- On clubs and data-type constructors G. M. Kelly
- Penrose diagrams and 2-dimensional rewriting Y. Lafont
- Strong monads, algebras and fixed points P. S. Mulry
- Semantics of local variables P. W. O'Hearn and R. D. Tennant
- Using fibrations to understand subtypes W. Phoa
- Reasoning about sequential functions via logical relations K. Sieber
- I-categories and duality M. B. Smyth
- Geometric theories and databases S. Vickers
- Partial products, bagdomains and hyperlocal toposes P. T. Johnstone.