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Though elementary definitions from topology and differential geometry have been provided for convenience, some familiarity with them will be expected. Also, some experience of sets, vector spaces and basic group theory will be assumed, but the overall algebraic content of our material is slight and the treatment of categories is from first principles. Our main reference text for prerequisite material is the book Tensor Geometry [28] , which gives a leisurely development from vector spaces through topology to curved manifolds and relativistic spacetime.
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Dodson, C.T.J. (1988). Preliminaries. In: Categories, Bundles and Spacetime Topology. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7776-2_1
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