TY - GEN AU - Grandis, Marco TI - Higher dimensional categories: : from double to multiple categories SN - 9789811205101 U1 - 512.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Algebraic Categories N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part I From Categories to Double Categories -- A Review of Basic Category Theory -- Introducing Two-Dimensional Category Theory -- Double Categories -- Double Adjunctions -- Double Limits -- Part II Multiple Categories -- Weak and Lax Multiple Categories -- Multiple Adjunctions -- Monads and Algebras for Multiple Categories -- Appendix A -- Applications in Homological Algebra and Algebraic Topology -- Appendix B -- Symmetric Cubical Sets and Cubical Categories -- Appendix C -- Solutions and Hints -- References -- Index N2 - This book can be used as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate studies, and as a basis for research. Notions are presented in a 'concrete' way, with examples and exercises; the latter are endowed with a solution or hints. Part I, devoted to double categories, starts at basic category theory and is kept at a relatively simple level. Part II, on multiple categories, can be used independently by a reader acquainted with 2-dimensional categories ER -