John Baez

Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin

April 5, 2018

The Mathematics of Networks

Nature and the world of human technology are full of networks. People like to draw diagrams of networks: flow charts, electrical circuit diagrams, chemical reaction networks, signal-flow graphs, Bayesian networks, food webs, Feynman diagrams and the like. Far from mere informal tools, many of these diagrammatic languages fit into a rigorous framework: category theory. I will explain a bit of how this works and discuss some applications.

You can see the slides here.

For a series of videos and slides covering different aspects of network theory, try:

To read more about the network theory project, go here:


© 2018 John Baez
baez@math.removethis.ucr.andthis.edu

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