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"Category theory was introduced by Eilenberg and Mac Lane in the 1940s. {-}.In this book, I will be sure to use examples that do not do that, including examples from daily experience such as family relationships, train journeys, freezing and thawing food, and more hard-hitting subjects such as racism and privilege...{-}...More than technical prowess or a huge litany of theorems, I want to share the joy of abstraction." — Jul 08, 2025 02:08AM
"Category theory was introduced by Eilenberg and Mac Lane in the 1940s. {-}.In this book, I will be sure to use examples that do not do that, including examples from daily experience such as family relationships, train journeys, freezing and thawing food, and more hard-hitting subjects such as racism and privilege...{-}...More than technical prowess or a huge litany of theorems, I want to share the joy of abstraction." — Jul 08, 2025 02:08AM
“I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.”
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“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.”
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“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!”
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