Seminar on \(\infty\)-categories

Here is a good list of references for our course.

References:

  • Charles Rezk’s notes “Introduction to Quasicategories”:

https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~rezk/quasicats.pdf

  • Markus Land’s Book “Introduction to Infinity-Categories” (2021, Birkhauser)
  • Mark Groth’s “A Short Course on \(\infty\)-categories”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.2925.pdf

  • Yonathan Harpaz’s lecture notes (includes stuff about factorization homology and \(\infty\)-operads):

https://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~harpaz/lecture_notes.pdf

  • Lurie’s “Higher Topos Theory”:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0608040.pdf



Course & Seminar examples:

∞-categories seminar



Category Theory Books:

We strongly recommend the following textbooks to learn or revist the basics of (ordinary) category theory:

  • Emily Riehl’s “Category Theory in Context”:

https://emilyriehl.github.io/files/context.pdf

  • Tom Leinster’s “Basic Category Theory”:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.09375.pdf

  • Mac Lane’s (mythical) “Categories for the Working Mathematician”

http://www.mtm.ufsc.br/~ebatista/2016-2/maclanecat.pdf