category theory
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limit/colimit
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Kan extension
Yoneda lemma
Isbell duality
Grothendieck construction
adjoint functor theorem
monadicity theorem
adjoint lifting theorem
Tannaka duality
Gabriel-Ulmer duality
small object argument
Freyd-Mitchell embedding theorem
relation between type theory and category theory
sheaf and topos theory
enriched category theory
higher category theory
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A tower is a diagram of the shape of the poset of natural numbers
\cdots \to X_2 \to X_1 \to X_0 \,.
A limit over a diagram of this form is called a sequential limit/directed limit.