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Best books to learn Category theory, in order

Category theory abstracts patterns from across mathematics, so it lands best when you already have examples to abstract from. A good path starts concretely with objects, morphisms, and functors, grounded in familiar structures, then builds toward natural transformations, limits, and adjunctions; the payoff monads, whether in math or programming, comes once those foundations feel routine.

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