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Category Theory by Tom LaGatta

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What it is

Tom LaGatta's talk on category theory at a 2014 LispNYC meetup, covering objects, morphisms and the basic ideas in an informal, conversational style. It runs about 97 minutes.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a more approachable introduction to category theory than the more formal lecture series people often start with.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “you might try this video”

    Accessible talk introducing category theory.

    mjhoy, 2014-05 · Recommendation · in “Thinking in Types”

  2. “is also a nice introduction”

    Nice introduction to category theory, pointing to nLab.

    gosub, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Mathematics is full of wonderful but relatively unknown theorems”

  3. “Milewski's YouTube lectures gets mentioned a lot, but I couldn't make much sense of them before watching Tom LaGatta's more informal and conversational presentation”

    Informal, conversational category theory presentation that is easier to follow.

    aputsiak, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “Category Theory, Syntactically (2016)”

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Topics: category theory, morphisms, functional programming, mathematics, lisp meetup

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