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Introduction

Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 1174)

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  • Banach Manifold
  • Closed Category
  • Coarse Theory
  • Cartesian Closed Category
  • Autonomous Ordinary Differential Equation

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Lawvere, F.W. (1986). Introduction. In: Categories in Continuum Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076929

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