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| The textbook '''''Sets for Mathematics''''' by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lawvere F. William Lawvere] uses categorical algebra to introduce set theory. | | The textbook '''''Sets for Mathematics''''' by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lawvere F. William Lawvere] uses categorical algebra to introduce set theory. |
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| In parallel to Grothendieck, Lawvere developed the notion of a topos as a collection of objects/points behaving as sets and arrows as maps between sets. The utility of this is for a characterization of sets via mappings only - there is a unique (equivalence class of) set(s) with one element that can alternatively be described as only receiving one map from each other set. The number of maps in the other direction count the elements of sets conversely. Two element sets are an instance of "subobject classifiers" in the topos of sets such that the maps into them correspond to subsets of the source set of the map. The language of toposes is particularly accessible here, and plays a universal role in modern mathematics, e.g. for toposes emerging from sets parametrized by a topological space (presheaf toposes) even inspiring functional programming languages such as Haskell due to the logical properties of toposes.
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| == Table of Contents == | | == Table of Contents == |