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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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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That's in a completely different league, but it served to show them something that without group theory wasn't obvious, but with group theory was completely obvious. That hinted at the power of the topic, but took about 2 minutes from nothing.
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