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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If you haven't seen it, Pratt's theorem is an amazing result about primes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_certificate … Easy to prove once you know Fermat's little theorem.
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It's kind of remarkable: you can start from the question "What does it take to prove a number is prime?", and quickly end up being almost forced to reinvent Lagrange's theorem (and groups and cosets) and Euclid's algorithm and Fermat's little theorem.
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This is very close to what I currently do, but it suffers the problem that it all seems to be about numbers. You and I know that it isn't, but when you're trying to convince people that "real maths" isn't about numbers, it's a but awkward to do Fermat's Little Theorem.
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You show Pratt's theorem?
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