General Overview
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_Recent Math Field_  
1942-45, Samuel Eilenberg &amp; Saunders Mac Lane

Certainly one of the more abstract branches of math

- _New math foundation_  
	formalism abstraction, package entire theory<sup>★</sup>
- _Bridge between disciplines_  
	Physics, Quantum Physics, Topology, Logic, Computer Science<sup>☆</sup>

<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/>
☆: <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>