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General Overview
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<div style="float:right; width: 18%">
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<img src="categories/img/eilenberg.gif" alt="Samuel Eilenberg"/>
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<img src="categories/img/maclaine.jpg" alt="Saunders Mac Lane"/>
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_Recent Math Field_
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1942-45, Samuel Eilenberg & Saunders Mac Lane
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Certainly one of the more abstract branches of math
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- _New math foundation_
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formalism abstraction, package entire theory<sup>★</sup>
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- _Bridge between disciplines_
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Physics, Quantum Physics, Topology, Logic, Computer Science<sup>☆</sup>
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<p class="smaller base01" style="border-top: solid 1px">★: <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pd">When is one thing equal to some other thing?, Barry Mazur, 2007</a><br/>
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☆: <a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf">Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone, John C. Baez, Mike Stay, 2009</a></p>
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