Leinster, Tom,  1971- <br/><br/>
Higher operads, higher categories/ 
Tom Leinster. 
 - Cambridge, UK;  New York:  Cambridge University Press,  2004. 
 - xiii, 433 p.;  23 cm. 
 - London Mathematical Society lecture note series;  298 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-416) and index. 
<br/><br/>Background: Classical categorical structures -- Classical operads and multicategories -- Notions of monoidal category -- Operads. Generalized operads and multicategories: basics -- Example: fc-multicategories -- Generalized operads and multicategories: further theory -- Opetopes -- n-categories: Globular operads -- A definition of weak n-category -- Other definitions of weak n-category -- Appendices: A. Symmetric structures -- B. Coherence for monoidal categories -- C. Special Cartesian monads -- D. Free multicategories -- E. Definitions of trees -- F. Free strict n-categories -- G. Initial operad-with-contracti . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521532159 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003055356 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA3X5614  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operads.<br/>Categories (Mathematics)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>512.62  / L531h