Topos

In mathematics, a topos (US: , UK: ; plural topoi or , or toposes) is a category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or more generally, on a site). Topoi behave much like the category of sets and possess a notion of localization. The Grothendieck topoi find applications in algebraic geometry, and more general elementary topoi are used in logic. The mathematical field that studies topoi is called topos theory.