Archive - Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, CECIIS - 2013

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Some Categorical Structures and Their Rôle in Differential Calculus
William Steingartner

Last modified: 2013-07-19

Abstract


The development of mathematics stands as one of the most important achievements of humanity, and the development of the calculus, both the differential calculus and integral calculus is one of the most important achievements in mathematics. Differential calculus is about finding the slope of a tangent to the graph of a function, or equivalently, differential calculus is about finding the rate of change of one quantity with respect to another quantity. On the other hand, integration is an important concept in mathematics and, together with its inverse, differentiation, is one of the two main operations in calculus. Integrals and derivatives became the basic tools of calculus, with numerous applications in science and engineering. Category theory is a mathematical approach to the study of algebraic structure that has become an important tool in theoretical computing science, particularly for semantics-based research. In our paper we show how to represent some parts of differential calculus in categorical structures.