Title Higher operads, higher categories / Tom Leinster.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 433 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 298
	London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 298.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-416) and index.
Contents	Background: Classical categorical structures -- Classical operads and multicategories -- Notions of monoidal category -- Operads. Generalized operads and multicategories: basics -- Example: fc-multicategories -- Generalized operads and multicategories: further theory -- Opetopes -- n-categories: Globular operads -- A definition of weak n-category -- Other definitions of weak n-category -- Appendices: A. Symmetric structures -- B. Coherence for monoidal categories -- C. Special Cartesian monads -- D. Free multicategories -- E. Definitions of trees -- F. Free strict n-categories -- G. Initial operad-with-contraction.
Summary	Foundations of higher dimensional category theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Operads.
	Operads.
	Categories (Mathematics)
	Categories (Mathematics)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Leinster, Tom, 1971- Higher operads, higher categories. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521532159 (DLC) 2003055356 (OCoLC)52547668
ISBN	9781107362277 (electronic book)
	110736227X (electronic book)
	9780511525896 (ebook)
	0511525893 (ebook)
	9781107367180
	1107367182
	0521532159
	9780521532150

Title Higher operads, higher categories / Tom Leinster.

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