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Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?

Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be “green” math. A category is a collection of objects and these relationships, or morphisms. Let’s consider that chess set as a category. To do so, you might depict it as a diagram featuring little boxes for each object — legal chess positions — and then connect the... [9000 chars]

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