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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 2)

Last time, I mentioned that I would have changed up how I presented the initial information. A few people couldn’t make it to the first lecture. So I offered to show up an hour early this week and essentially give the first lecture again. As you might expect, the second time around was much better!ContinueContinue reading “Teaching category theory to engineers (part 2)”