Welcome! My name is Dan Swenson, and I'm a fifth-year graduate student at the University of Minnesota, studying mathematics.

Very likely you are here looking for my class homepages. This semester I am teaching: Math 2373.

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Here are three pictures of me, with various amounts of facial hair:

Thanks to John Hall and Joe Ratterman for the images, such as they are.

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician.

I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

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Email: dswenson math . umn . edu. Please feel free to email me if you are not a spammer. If you are a spammer, please feel free to die. (See also what Dave Benson has to say on the subject.)