Categories for piecewise functions #21709
Description
References:
- http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/categories/sage/categories/primer.html
- https://trac.sagemath.org/wiki/CategoriesRoadMap
- http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/categories/sage/categories/category.html
- http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/categories/sage/categories/facade_sets.html
- http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/categories/sage/categories/sets_cat.html#facade-sets
- http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/thematic_tutorials/coercion_and_categories.html
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References for PL and PD manifolds:
- http://people.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/287xnotes/Lecture17.pdf
- Michael Penna, Diff. Geom on simplicial spaces, https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1975-214-00/S0002-9947-1975-0391146-5/S0002-9947-1975-0391146-5.pdf
Component: categories
Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21709