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Answer by Cheerful Parsnip for Motivation and use for category theory?

I had the idea when I was in grad school that category theory was a convenient language in which to state things, but didn't have any deep results. However, I now believe nothing could be further from...

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Answer by Akhil Mathew for Motivation and use for category theory?

I myself find pure category theory for its own sake rather difficult to swallow, and prefer to think of it with actual examples of its use. So, let me give a few examples (historical) of how the...

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Motivation and use for category theory?

From reading the answers to different questions on category theory, it seems that category theory is useful as a framework for thinking about mathematics. Also, from the book Algebra by Saunders Mac...

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