Categories for the Working Mathematician
Book
Foundational Source
Category Theory
Citation
Saunders Mac Lane. (1998). Categories for the Working Mathematician. 5. Springer.
Why this reference is included
Mac Lane’s Categories for the Working Mathematician (1998), published by Springer, sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited 6 times across Book II (Categorical Holomorphy), Part 7, Chapter Pre-Yoneda Embedding; Book II (Categorical Holomorphy), Part 8, Chapter Yoneda Embedding as Theorem; Book II (Categorical Holomorphy), Part 8, Chapter 2-Categories from Iterated Enrichment, and in 3 further chapters.
Cited in
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Book II — Categorical Holomorphy Part 7Chapter Pre-Yoneda Embedding
The classical Yoneda lemma asserts that every object of a locally small category is determined by its functor of points
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Book II — Categorical Holomorphy Part 8Chapter Yoneda Embedding as Theorem
The Yoneda embedding y : C → [C^, Set] sends each object A to the representable presheaf h_A = _C(-, A)
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Book II — Categorical Holomorphy Part 8Chapter 2-Categories from Iterated Enrichment
The 2-Category Structure We now organize the iterated morphism spaces into a 2-categorical framework
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Book II — Categorical Holomorphy Part 11Chapter Why the Fork Is Worth It
Part XI adds the meta-structural declaration: Books I–II have built an alternative foundation for mathematics
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Book III — Categorical Spectrum Part 2Chapter The Yoneda-Langlands Reflection
The Yoneda mechanism. The Yoneda embedding (II.T36) is the categorical engine of Langlands_1
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Book IV — Categorical Microcosm Part 0Chapter The Self-Describing Universe
Self-Description as Self-Enrichment The Yoneda Perspective In classical category theory , the Yoneda lemma states that every object is completely determined by the collection of morphisms into it