Further reading

Piaget’s account of sensorimotor intelligence supplies the developmental model of assimilation, accommodation, and the progressive construction of schemata [ Piaget , 1952 ] ; James supplies the classic description of the infant’s initially undifferentiated experience [ James , 1890 ] . Spelke’s What Babies Know and its subsequent précis synthesize the evidence for six systems of core knowledge and emphasize their role in guiding learning across the lifespan [ Spelke , 2022 , 2023 ] . Infinitesimal Creativity provides the immediate categorical point of departure [ Mahadevan , 2026b ] . Gold’s theory of identification in the limit and the universal-imitation formulation of inductive and coinductive inference provide the learning-theoretic lineage [ Gold , 1967 , Mahadevan , 2024 ] . For established online convex optimization, Hazan’s tutorial provides the principal map used by the UODL specialization [ Hazan , 2023 ] . The broader categorical AI program is developed in Categories for Artificial General Intelligence and the LINCS book [ Mahadevan , 2026a , 2026c ] . These sources supply context rather than prerequisites: Chapter 1 reintroduces the categorical language needed below.