Books by Saunders Mac Lane

This autobiography of Saunders Mac Lane, an extraordinary mathematician, takes the reader on a journey through the most important milestones of the mathematical world in the twentieth century.

This second edition includes a number of revisions and additions, including new chapters on topics of active interest: symmetric monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories, and the coherence theorems for them, as well as 2-categories and the higher dimensional categories which have recently come into prominence.

MacLane's autobiography takes the reader on a journey through the most important milestones of the mathematical world in the 20th century. Early in the century he participated in the exciting happenings at Gottingen.