Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Adjunction, Your Honor!

Series
Category Theory Student Seminar
Time
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 12:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
John DeverGatech
Judge John Dever gives the mathematically ubiquitous concept of adjunction a categorical definition. With the hom functor acting as an "inner product", categorical adjoints may be seen as the analogy of adjoint linear operators of a Hilbert space.