Call for 2026 Summer Research Associates
Come spend the summer at the Topos Institute! For early-career researchers, we’re excited to open up applications for our 2026 Summer Research Associate program.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Joanna Ko is a Mathematician, primarily a Category Theorist. She believes that the philosophy of Category Theory resonates with our cognitions, perceptions, and thinkings, therefore, Category Theory provides a nice framework for describing and recognising numerous interesting phenomena, similarities, invariants, and beauties, in the eyes of humans.
In the third post of this series about Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, we look at the story-telling approach that we took in writing the book.
In the second post of this series about Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, we look at the technologies used to build the book.
In the first post of this series, we introduce the freely available online book Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, starting with the story of how it came into being and giving a brief overview of its contents.

A follow-up to Algebraic Geometry for the Working Programmer, this post explains a category-theoretic approach to symbolic open dynamical systems.