3 papers
math.CT2025
Basic Category Theory
Tom Leinster
This short introductory category theory textbook is for readers with relatively little mathematical background (e.g. the first half of an undergraduate mathematics degree). At its…
q-bio.PE2024
Entropy and Diversity: The Axiomatic Approach
Tom Leinster
This book brings new mathematical rigour to the ongoing vigorous debate on how to quantify biological diversity. The question "what is diversity?" has surprising mathematical depth…
math.CT2024
The eventual image
Tom Leinster
In a category with enough limits and colimits, one can form the universal automorphism on an endomorphism in two dual senses. Sometimes these dual constructions coincide, as in the…