Morphisms and Categories: Comparison and Transformation--Essentials of Piaget's Genetic Epistemology Translation Series

Author: (Switzerland) Piaget, translated by Li Qiwwei
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The book "Morphism and Category: Comparison and Transformation" primarily elaborates on the general theory of the forms of biology and intelligence, and points out that this theory is based on the coordinated mathematical tools of morphism and category. A morphism is a structure built upon a relational system between two sets, which are similar to mathematical groups in that they have one or more common compensatory rules. A category is part of topological algebra. They consist of two classes: one is objects, and the other is morphisms. Piaget resolved a long-standing issue that had troubled him through morphism and category: the continuity problem between life and intelligence, viewed as two stages of biological adaptation, and the continuity problem between everyday knowledge and scientific knowledge.