Ep166 - Eugenia Cheng | The Art of Logic
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How to Be More Intelligent in Order to Make Things Simpler
In category theory, we study relationships between things in terms of their intrinsic characteristics. And i've learnt a lot from this, and my brain is very good towards thinking about relationships between things a lot. But starting from something quite banal like the factors of 30 to this is obviously mathematical. Will find some by looking at which numbers are also factors of each other. So now we see that it's the corners of a cube. We also see a hierarchy going on here, because you might notice that one is at the bottom because it's the smallest. Two, three and five are directly above it because nothing else goes into them apart from one - they are prime numbers. At the
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