"category theory" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} category theory (uncountable)
  1. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them. Wikipedia link: category theory Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Category theory, Mathematics Hypernyms: mathematics, theory Translations (branch of mathematics): 範疇論 (Chinese Mandarin), 范畴论 (fànchóulùn) (Chinese Mandarin), teorie kategorií [feminine] (Czech), kategoriateoria (Finnish), théorie des catégories [feminine] (French), Kategorientheorie [feminine] (German), ríkjafræði [feminine] (Icelandic), teori kategori (Malay), teoria categoriei [feminine] (Romanian), теория категорий (teorija kategorij) [feminine] (Russian), teoría de categorías [feminine] (Spanish), kategoriteori [common-gender] (Swedish), kategori teorisi (Turkish), ulam kuramı (Turkish)

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