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Noun Concept
Categories: Category theory stubs, Higher category theory
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bicategory  2-category  bicategories  weak 2-category
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In mathematics, a bicategory is a concept in category theory used to extend the notion of category to handle the cases where the composition of morphisms is not associative, but only associative up to an isomorphism. Wikipedia
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In mathematics, a bicategory is a concept in category theory used to extend the notion of category to handle the cases where the composition of morphisms is not associative, but only associative up to an isomorphism. Wikipedia
structure consisting of a class of objects and (between every pair X,Y of objects) a category C(X,Y), along with composition functors C(X,Y)×C(Y,Z)→C(X,Z), such that composition is associative (up to natural equivalence by some isomorphism) Wikidata
A particular construct in category theory. Wiktionary
IS A
weak n-category
HAS KIND
strict 2-category
FOLLOWED BY
tricategory
FOLLOWS
category
HAS PARTS OF THE CLASS
strict 2-category
STUDIED BY
higher category theory
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bicategory
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bicategory
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bicategory
Wikipedia Redirections
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bicategories, weak 2-category
Wikidata Alias
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2-category, weak 2-category

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