
Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?
The Joy of Why
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The Elegance of Abstraction
"I used to think that the math I did, category theory, was only useful to other parts of pure math," he says. "Then I realized that actually, because abstraction is about how to think better, it can be helpful directly to all of human life" He adds: "It might seem that abstraction is even less relevant to life than other forms of math."
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