The Joy of Why

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

Mar 22, 2023

49:39

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Episode guests

Eugenia Cheng

Highlights

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Episode notes

Equality vs Equivalence in Mathematics

04:26

I Love Abstraction Because I Enjoy It

03:17

Higher Category Theory

03:21

Introduction

2min

The Joy of Abstraction, an Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Chang

3min

I Love Abstraction Because I Enjoy It

3min

Is Category Theory the Mathematics of Mathematics?

6min

The Elegance of Abstraction

3min

Trigonometry

4min

Is There a Category?

4min

What Is Partial Ordering in Mafamine?

3min

Category Theory

3min

10.

Are Equivalence Relationships Too Well Behaved?

5min

11.

The Power of Category Theory in Algebraic Geometry

2min

12.

Equality vs Equivalence in Mathematics

4min

13.

Higher Category Theory

3min

14.

Is Category Theory Too Abstract?

2min

15.

Quantum Magazine Science Podcast: The Joy of Why

2min

Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction.

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