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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their own obtuse terminology that I cannot proceed, but, also they never showed me anything that made it make sense to invest more energy in trying to proceed. Because all I saw was stuff I already know from other subject areas.
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If you want to see things that really motivate expressing things categorically, presumably a context like algebraic topology (where categories etc. originally came up) would be better.
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