Yes, and algebra is the "command-line bullshitery" of doing physics. I struggled for many years over this (my username is an in-joke with myself). There's basi

Yes, and algebra is the "command-line bullshitery" of doing physics. I struggled for many years over this (my username is an in-joke with myself). There's basically two days a month that i can actually comprehend algebra, the rest of the time those little symbols merge and splurge themselves across the page until i'm dizzy. The beginnings of a breakthrough happened when I started writing a program (algorithm) for every bit of algebra I couldn't understand. Now I am starting to see that the equals sign is just not for me. I think in processes, not static equalities. And indeed, there is a whole branch of mathematics with this philosophy: category theory.