nLab Barry Mitchell

Barry Mitchell (1933-2021) was an American mathematician who wrote one of the earliest books on category theory (1965).

He proved what is now known as the Freyd-Mitchell embedding theorem, which shows that any abelian category has an exact embedding into a category of modules.

Selected writings

Introducing the Mitchell embedding theorem:

On category theory:

Introducing the notion of ringoids:

See also:

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