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Functional programming and category theory tweets from @JohnDCook

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'A diagram D in a category C can be seen as a system of constrains, and then a limit of D represents all possible solutions of the system.' -- Joseph Goguen

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'Given a species of structure, say widgets, the result of interconnecting a system of widgets to form a super-widget corresponds to taking the colimit of the diagram of widgets in which the morphisms show how they are connected.' -- Goguen

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The idea of subobject classifiers is to generalize indicator functions and use this to define something analogous to subsets in categories besides Set.

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'The further you go in mathematics, especially pure mathematics, the more universal properties you will meet.' -- Tom Leinster, Basic Category Theory

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The category of Abelian groups is an Abelian category. But the category of topological Abelian groups is NOT an Abelian category.