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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Or an example from complex analysis: suppose you have a function that's analytic everywhere in the complex plane. Than integrate it round a closed curve in the complex plane, and you'll find that you get 0. Again, it's mindblowing!
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For the last, you need to know what analytic means: (f(z+epsilon)-f(z))/epsilon approaches a constant limit as epsilon approaches 0, everywhere. Intuitively, the key thing going beyond real differentiability is that epsilon can approach 0 from any direction in the complex plane
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