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Basic Category Theory
"There exist only two kinds of modern mathematics books: ones which you cannot read beyond the first page and ones which you cannot read beyond the first sentence." -- Chen Ning Yang
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on Jan 3, 2017
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Since Yang's name is probably not familiar to most HNers, I'll just add that he's a theoretical quantum physicist; Nobel Price in 1957, etc etc.
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