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Why do every fucking algebra textbooks has so much category theory shit? Is it really necessary to introduce categories just to talk about groups and homomorphisms? Or is it just authors jerking off "look, I'm better than you because instead of defining products in the most straightforward way I throw some category theory shit and just say lol it's special case of some abstract nonsense"
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>>9101496
>Why do every fucking algebra textbooks has so much category theory shit?
I understand that you got memed into reading Aluffi and are upset, and this is justified, but don't make stupid generalizations. The vast majority of intro algebra texts either save category theory until the very end when you're actually prepared to grasp it or don't even use it at all.
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>>9101500
No, I was reading Lang, but even in lecture notes from my uni category theory is introduced just at the beginning
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>>9101496
Catergory theory is either useful or necessary for some further topics in algebra like homological algebra, algebraic geometry, and commutative rings
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>>9101537
then why isn't it introduced just before homological algebra, but in the first fucking chapter?
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