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General Overview

Samuel Eilenberg Saunders Mac Lane

Recent Math Field
1942-45, Samuel Eilenberg & Saunders Mac Lane

Certainly one of the more abstract branches of math

  • New math foundation
    formalism abstraction, package entire theory
  • Bridge between disciplines
    Physics, Quantum Physics, Topology, Logic, Computer Science

★: When is one thing equal to some other thing?, Barry Mazur, 2007
☆: Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone, John C. Baez, Mike Stay, 2009