Mathematical Work
Freyd is perhaps best known as the author of the foundational book Abelian Categories: An Introduction to the Theory of Functors. This work culminates in a proof of Mitchell's embedding theorem.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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