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Teaching category theory to engineers (part 4)

I’ll start off with a clarification. My students are engineers in the sense that they are PhD students and postdoc in control theory. So they’re very well acquainted with certain sections of modern mathematics: dynamical systems, optimization, some differential geometry, but not so much abstract algebra. The experience with linear algebra is interesting, because itContinueContinue reading “Teaching category theory to engineers (part 4)”

Teaching category theory to engineers (part 3)

I have heard the requests to start posting lecture notes. I’ll get to it soon. These posts are my reflections on the experience of putting this course together and how the students respond. I’ve committed one of the cardinal sins of teaching category theory. I never mentioned the fact that the naming convention for categoriesContinueContinue reading “Teaching category theory to engineers (part 3)”

Teaching category theory to engineers (part 1)

I’m currently teaching an informal course in category theory at Caltech. As I’m currently writing, I’ve given one lecture so far. One of the goals here is to get them up to the point where they could *begin* to read current research in applied category theory. So I hope they could pick up a paperContinueContinue reading “Teaching category theory to engineers (part 1)”