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Comment by monads

I will get down-vote for sure but it's trivial this book and also the series "category theory for programmers". It's actually not very far from the content of several first pages of any book on set theory or logics.

I find the ubiquitous idea is that "category theory" is more prestigous than "set theory", and some programmers, instead of seriously learning mathematics, think that learning category theory would fill up their lack of knowledge (in mathematics). It's quite contrary since category theory alone (i.e. without context) is trivial.

Let's be honest: read this book and the series of the author, and try to use the acquired knowledge to prove some (even simple) mathematical theorems.

parent monads 4 years ago

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