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5 - Tai-Danae Bradley: Where math meets language

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What Is Category Theory?

Am: I like to think of category theory as like the madlibs of mathematics. Fror math, maybe you have this general templet, and depending on what words that you fill into that templet, you you specialize to a specific construction or a specific thing in mathematics. Am: A category theory kind of organizes this a phenomenon that we see, and it provides a language where everything sort of fits nicely.

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