Course Identification

Title:

Introduction to Category Theory

Code:

20264221

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Avraham Aizenbud

TA's:

Shahar Dagan

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2026

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Thursday, 10:00 - 13:00, Jacob Ziskind Building, Rm 155

Tutorials
Wednesday, 16:15 - 17:00, Jacob Ziskind Building, Rm 155

First Lecture:

30/10/2025

End date:

22/01/2026

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Mathematics and Computer Science: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Chemical Sciences: 2.00 points

Comments

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Prerequisites

See https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~aizenr/6Teaching/Cat_theo5781/Syllabus.html

Restrictions

Participants:

250

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

100%

Evaluation Type

Other

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

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Location

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Time

-

Remarks

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

6

Syllabus

The aim of the course is to teach the language of category theory. This language is used throughout most of modern mathematics, and very convenient to express mathematical concept. The course will be filled with many examples from different branches of mathematics.

If time will allow, we will also discuss category theory as a theory by itself and not only as a language, and give some of it applications.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Get familiar with the language of category theory and be able to use it in different branches of mathematics

Reading List

https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~aizenr/6Teaching/Cat_theo5781/Syllabus.html

Website

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