category theory

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Category theory

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Singular
category theory

Plural
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category theory (uncountable)

(mathematics) A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in extreme abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them.

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branch of mathematics

Czech: teorie kategorií f.
Finnish: kategoriateoria

Swedish: kategoriteori c.

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