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The Handbook of Categorical Algebra is intended to give, in three volumes, a rather detailed account of what, ideally, everybody working in category theory should know, whatever the specific topic of research they have chosen. The book is planned also to serve as a reference book for both specialists in the field and all those using category theory as a tool. Volume 3 begins with the essential aspects of the theory of locales, proceeding to a study in chapter 2 of the sheaves on a locale and on a topological space, in their various equivalent presentations: functors, etale maps or W-sets. Next, this situation is generalized to the case of sheaves on a site and the corresponding notion of Grothendieck topos is introduced. Chapter 4 relates the theory of Grothendieck toposes with that of accessible categories and sketches, by proving the existence of a classifying topos for all coherent theories.

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Preface; Introduction to the handbook; 1. Locales; 2. Sheaves; 3. Grothendieck toposes; 4. The classifying topos; 5. Elementary toposes; 6. Internal logic of a topos; 7. The law of excluded middle; 8. The axiom of infinity; 9. Sheaves in a topos; Index.

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 4/24/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521061247
      978-0521061247
      ISBN-10 0521061245
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Handbook of Categorical Algebra is intended to give, in three volumes, a rather detailed account of what, ideally, everybody working in category theory should know, whatever the specific topic of research they have chosen. The book is planned also to serve as a reference book for both specialists in the field and all those using category theory as a tool. Volume 3 begins with the essential aspects of the theory of locales, proceeding to a study in chapter 2 of the sheaves on a locale and on a topological space, in their various equivalent presentations: functors, etale maps or W-sets. Next, this situation is generalized to the case of sheaves on a site and the corresponding notion of Grothendieck topos is introduced. Chapter 4 relates the theory of Grothendieck toposes with that of accessible categories and sketches, by proving the existence of a classifying topos for all coherent theories.

      Trade Review
      " . . . these volumes will be of enormous value to graduate students in pure or applied category theory." Martin Hyland, Mathematical Reviews

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction to the handbook; 1. Locales; 2. Sheaves; 3. Grothendieck toposes; 4. The classifying topos; 5. Elementary toposes; 6. Internal logic of a topos; 7. The law of excluded middle; 8. The axiom of infinity; 9. Sheaves in a topos; Index.

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