Introducing categories to the practicing physicist

zbMATH Open1148.18300MaRDI QIDQ3527482FDOQ3527482

Authors Bob Coecke 

Publication date 29 September 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1032

zbMATH Keywords

category theorymonoidal category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to category theory (18-01)

Abstract: We argue that category theory should become a part of the daily practice of the physicist, and more specific, the quantum physicist and/or informatician. The reason for this is not that category theory is a better way of doing mathematics, but that monoidal categories constitute the actual algebra of practicing physics. We will not provide rigorous definitions or anything resembling a coherent mathematical theory, but we will take the reader for a journey introducing concepts which are part of category theory in a manner that the physicist will recognize them.

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