
Operads are mathematical devices which describe algebraic structures of many varieties and in various categories. Operads are particularly important in categories with a good notion of homotopy where they play a key role in organizing hierarchies of higher homotopies. Significant examples first appeared in the 1960s, though the formal definition and appropriate generality waited until a decade later. These early occurrences were in algebraic topology in the study of (iterated) loop spaces and their chain algebras.
Page Count:
362
Publication Date:
2014-05-21
ISBN-10:
147041323X
ISBN-13:
9781470413231
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