Logo image
Constructive Arrows: An Introduction to Categories, Toposes and Logic
Graduate Thesis/Dissertation   Open access

Constructive Arrows: An Introduction to Categories, Toposes and Logic

Samuel van der Weerden
~ Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSc (Hons), University of Otago
University of Otago
2021
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/10523/10935
Appears in  Dissertations

Abstract

category theory logic philosophy of mathematics non-classical intuitionistic
Category theory, especially topos theory, admits a new perspective on the study of logic and mathematical foundations. In this dissertation, we provide an introduction to the development of logic in a topos, and show why this logic does not validate the law of excluded middle. Assuming no prior knowledge of category theory, we motivate and introduce some main concepts of categories that allow for defining a topos. We briefly provide an introduction to order theory, giving the tools needed for analysis of the subobject algebras in a topos. We introduce the domain of formal logic and define propositional logical valuations on the subobject algebras and on a topos. We end with showing how the topos logic is intuitionistic, by virtue of the subobject algebras being Heyting algebras.
pdf
DissertationFinal-SamvdW.pdf495.24 kBDownloadView

Metrics

315 File views/ downloads
515 Record Views

Details

Logo image