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Contentsxix2.1.5.2 Forces Acting on a Fluid . . . . . . . . 802.1.5.3 Constitutive and Dynamical Equations 812.1.5.4 Navier–Stokes Equations . . . . . . . . 822.2 Actions: The Core Machinery of Modern Physics . . . . . 832.3 Functors: Global Machinery of Modern Mathematics . . . 872.3.1 Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882.3.1.1 Notes from Set Theory . . . . . . . . . 882.3.1.2 Notes From Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 892.3.1.3 Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.3.1.4 Algebra of Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.3.1.5 Compositions of Maps . . . . . . . . . . 902.3.1.6 The Chain Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902.3.1.7 Integration and Change of Variables . . 902.3.1.8 Notes from General Topology . . . . . . 912.3.1.9 Topological Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 922.3.1.10 Homotopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932.3.1.11 Commutative Diagrams . . . . . . . . . 952.3.1.12 Groups and Related AlgebraicStructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972.3.2 Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022.3.3 Functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052.3.4 Natural Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1082.3.4.1 Compositions of NaturalTransformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092.3.4.2 Dinatural Transformations . . . . . . . 1092.3.5 Limits and Colimits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112.3.6 Adjunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112.3.7 Abelian Categorical Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132.3.8 n−Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162.3.8.1 Generalization of ‘Small’ Categories . . 1172.3.8.2 Topological Structure of n−Categories . 1212.3.8.3 Homotopy Theory and Relatedn−Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212.3.8.4 Categorification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232.3.9 Application: n−Categorical Framework forHigher Gauge Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242.3.10 Application: Natural <strong>Geom</strong>etrical Structures . 1282.3.11 Ultimate Conceptual Machines: Weakn−Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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