Adjoint Functors

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1958Publisher:JSTORJournal:Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, volume 87, page 294 (issn: 0002-9947,

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Authors: Kan, D. M.;

doi: 10.2307/1993102 , 10.1090/s0002-9947-1958-0131451-0

Adjoint Functors

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Abstract

"Adjoint functors assist in reincorporating the subjective into its rightful place as a part of the objective so that it can organically reflect the objective" (Lawvere and Rosebrugh (2003), Sets for Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, p. 239).

Keywords

Functor, Adjunction unit, topology, Natural transformation, Left adjoint, Adjunction counit, Right adjoint, Adjointness, Category theory

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