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<h2 id="general-overview">General Overview</h2>
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<img src="categories/img/eilenberg.gif" alt="Samuel Eilenberg"/> <img src="categories/img/maclaine.jpg" alt="Saunders Mac Lane"/>
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<p><em>Recent Math Field</em><br />1942-45, Samuel Eilenberg &amp; Saunders Mac Lane</p>
<p>Certainly one of the more abstract branches of math</p>
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<li><em>New math foundation</em><br /> formalism abstraction, package entire theory<sup></sup></li>
<li><em>Bridge between disciplines</em><br /> Physics, Quantum Physics, Topology, Logic, Computer Science<sup></sup></li>
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★: <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>
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