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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
(Not in amswer to your question, per se). I think my favorite, if somewhat unsatisfying, answer to “why category theory” is that “it makes trivial results in math trivially trivial”.
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Replying to @3blue1brown
Amusing. Maybe a little bit like the way the idea of compactness made it easy to trivially extend lots of results about bounded subsets of R^n to hold more generally, including sometimes to some spaces you wouldn't expect?
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