Introducing categories to the practicing physicist
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Publication:3527482
zbMATH Open1148.18300arXiv0808.1032MaRDI QIDQ3527482FDOQ3527482
Authors: Bob Coecke 
Publication date: 29 September 2008
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1032
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