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I get this sense that mathematicians tend to focus on abstracting relationships, whereas programmers tend to focus on abstracting objects/entities. Hard to expl
by Tycho 12y ago
I get this sense that mathematicians tend to focus on abstracting relationships, whereas programmers tend to focus on abstracting objects/entities. Hard to explain though. Like programmers are constantly building models of the world, whereas mathematicians are constantly building new functions and general transformative techniques.
- emillon 12y agoThis is the general idea behind category theory: it describes relations and not objects themselves. That's quite a shift from set theory, where the core idea is that objects can be described with what's inside of them (and building the whole idea of relation as a set of tuples).