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Re:Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Math... by orbifold on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:03AM (#28549240)
Yeah no. There are whole fields completely untouched by such reasoning, like analysis.
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Re:Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Math... by pwm on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:44AM (#28550082)
He said "lot of" not "all".
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Re:Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Math... by Karrot_Kream on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:27PM (#28554576)
It's not a "lot of". Only small portions of mathematics benefit from category theory. Analysis is all about getting down-and-dirty with your mathematical objects. It's pretty tiring how much category theory evangelism there is online despite being very different than actual mathematical academia.
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Re:Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Math... by orbifold on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:23PM (#28554534)
Well most don’t, it’s an absurd statement. I can think of a few constructions that boil down to this, but most don’t.
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