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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yes and no. the illustration is about functors. and that is not domain specific. my sense is that the power of category theory is in extreme generality, but that is also why concrete, lay-friendly descriptions are hard. oh wait, i have an idea
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sadly, i am some 10 years away from my once-decent knowledge of this subject, but there is a *very* simple demonstration of fibrations as a generalization of factor groups which i will now never be able to find or describe correctly. colleague showed it to me on acetate in berlin
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The same way that black holes do not general relativity to exist
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