On the curious similarity between mathematics and imaginative design.https://twitter.com/tools_4_thought/status/1001966675451924480 …
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are you familiar with “An Invitation to Category Theory for Designers”? it tries to explicitly make the connection between abstraction in the context of design (esp architecture) & category theory as a toolset for dealing with abstraction in general http://mathematicians.org.uk/eoh/files/CTFD8.pdf …
No, I haven’t. Must admit, I took a class on category theory, and didn’t get a lot out of it (almost the only math class of which that was true; certainly the only well-taught class of which that was true).
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Interesting to see that Grothendieck apparently liked category theory. I wonder what he saw in it? (Many leading mathematicians seem rather skeptical it has much value; as you probably know it’s often referred to as “General nonsense”.)
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Most accounts I've heard say he used it to revolutionize algebraic geometry. Category theory is much more popular than this tweet lets on. I know many active professional mathematicians who say that category theory is a hard prerequisite for modern pure math.
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