Author: Martin Markl
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821843621
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Operads are mathematical devices which describe algebraic structures of many varieties and in various categories. From their beginnings in the 1960s, they have developed to encompass such areas as combinatorics, knot theory, moduli spaces, string field theory and deformation quantization.