Lecture 1: Introduction and motivation

After a brief introduction with motivations we will start to review a bit of category theory. We will introduce addittive categories and functors and we will start delve into abelian categories.

Literature

[Yek] We do as much as possible of chapter 2, we will continue into the next lecture.

One can find some of the material in [GM]  and [Huy] but treated much more superficially.