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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I don't quite understand it well enough to make the attempt, but I'll bet there's a mindblowing 5-minute explanation of what Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth says.
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Hmm. I'll have to think about that. I certainly don't know enough to be able to see immediately how or why that's interesting, so I'd have to dig into it. One result I did use to impress some 16 year olds was that in a group of even order there is an element a with a^2 = 1.
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