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Monad in Haskell programming vs. Monad in category theory

I have a question about concept of monad used in Haskell programming and category theory in math. Recall in Haskell a monad consists of following components: A type constructor that defines for each ...
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Examples of continuations in pure mathematics [closed]

I am not a computer scientist and have no knowledge of programming. However, I wondered continuations occur as natural and interesting mathematical structures, perhaps as algebraic or type theoretic ...
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What is the name of this type of function composition?

If standard function composition is defined as: (define compose { (B → C) → (A → B) → (A → C) } F G -> (λ X (F (G X)))) What type of ...
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