Download or read book Categories and Sheaves written by Masaki Kashiwara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Categories and sheaves appear almost frequently in contemporary advanced mathematics. This book covers categories, homological algebra and sheaves in a systematic manner starting from scratch and continuing with full proofs to the most recent results in the literature, and sometimes beyond. The authors present the general theory of categories and functors, emphasizing inductive and projective limits, tensor categories, representable functors, ind-objects and localization.