Category theory, K theory and homological algebra are interrelated branches of mathematics that comprise a powerful conceptual framework for studying structures and their interconnections. Category ...

Algebraic structures, encompassing groups, rings, fields and modules, have long formed the backbone of modern mathematics. Category theory, with its focus on objects and morphisms, provides a unifying ...

Emily Riehl thinks hard about objects that don't exist in the material world yet mysteriously seem to underlie many things that do. These objects have no concrete existence of their own, but they do ...

On a crisp fall New England day during my junior year of college, I was walking past a subway entrance when a math problem caught my eye. A man was standing near a few brainteasers he had scribbled on ...

The equal sign is the bedrock of mathematics. It seems to make an entirely fundamental and uncontroversial statement: These things are exactly the same. But there is ...