Most scientific & mathematical disciplines I know of have results that educated outsiders can appreciate and go "wow" after a brief acquaintance, even without understanding the details. Does anyone know of such a result for category theory?
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It’s a precise way to say “anything is perfectly determined by its relationship to everything else”
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Can you say why that's interesting?
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It gives you a more concrete way to think about categories, just like Cayley's theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%27s_theorem … (which is a special case of the Yoneda lemma) lets you think of any finite group as a bunch of permutation matrices.
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