A complexity-taming thing

Matteo Capucci

Sun Aug 06 2023

I’ve just read one of the best pieces of writing about the why of applied category theory I ever had the pleasure to read. I resonate so much with it that I want to copy it verbatim here:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/a-complexity-taming-thing/

JR

Mon Feb 24 2025

Very cool! And just to “endofunctor” this back to LocalCharts, this quotation I loved:

the process of interrogating some domain of mathematics, science, or engineering through a category-theoretic lens nearly always reveals some unexploited simplicity, some principle of compositionality or generality that pulls things together - @owenlynch