I have tried to read several books about category theory, but they all appear to dissolve into lists of trivial details before they ever clearly say anything new or powerful. Is category theory really just the idea "hey we can draw equations in 2D instead of 1D",
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Proving theorems which are impossible to prove without compression by CT, because the technical details exceed human mental ability.
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If I may to attempt a summary, the main point of CT is to find the formally simplest languages which can be interpreted in the practically widest mathematical settings, to get a large number of specific theorems from a small number of general ones.
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