nLab Towards Higher Categories

This page is to record the reference:

• John Baez and Peter May (eds.):

  
  

  Towards Higher Categories

  
  

  The IMA volumes in Mathematics and its applications 152

  Springer (2010)

  doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1524-5

on higher category theory.

Contents

On 2-category theory:

• Steve Lack, A 2-categories companion, In: Baez J., May J. (eds.) Towards Higher Categories. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 152. Springer 2010 (arXiv:math.CT/0702535, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1524-5_4)

On the history of Australian higher category theory

• Ross Street: An Australian conspectus of higher categories, talk at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Summer Program: $n$-Categories: Foundations and Applications at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, 7–18 June 2004) [pdf, pdf]

On comparison of model categories of (∞,1)-categories:

• Julie Bergner: A survey of $(\infty,1)$-categories, in: John Baez, Peter May (eds.): Towards Higher Categories, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications 152, Springer (2007) [arXiv:math/0610239, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1524-5_2]

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