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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

The Joy of Why

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Category Theory

category theory is inherently just a piece of algebra. You start with some objects and some arrows, so arrow structure. That's the data you put in some structure and you have some axioms and then you manipulate it using logic. And that's how I understand people I completely disagree with via a form of empathy that comes from abstraction. In showing them abstraction as applied to those questions, it not only helps them understand those questions, but also piques their interest in abstraction," he says.

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