The first introductory account of using string diagrams to reason in elementary category theory.

While all field theories are nowadays available in a modern, differential geometric, coordinate free formulation on manifolds this has been so far only rudiment

This book arose from a conference organized under the auspices of the Australian Research Council's Complex Open Systems Research Network (which has become the

Contributed by world-renowned specialists on the occasion of Paul Germain's 80th birthday, this unique book reflects the foundational works and the intellectual