We recall and analyze the two slogans of the week: "left adjoints preserve coproducts, and right adjoints preserve limits" and "the colimit construction can be seen as a left adjoint and the limit construction as a right adjoint". We then see how to use these two facts to better understand limits and colimits in Top, Ab, and Gr, once we know them in Set.
(Note that I unfortunately forgot to hit record for the second hour of class, so only the first hour is recorded here. My apologies!)
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