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Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng

00:16 – Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction

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Articles:

01:54 – Getting Into Math: Is math useful? Is that the point?

A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart

20:17 – Category Theory

Textbooks:

38:17 – Changing the Terminology Around Gender to Focus on Character Traits Instead: Congressive and Ingressive Behavior

The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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Special Guest: Dr. Eugenia Cheng.

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