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Many concepts in mathematics, computer science and mathematical physics can be phrased in the language of categories and morphisms between categories. Categories were first introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in 1942 as a tool in the study of [[algebraic topology]].   
 
Many concepts in mathematics, computer science and mathematical physics can be phrased in the language of categories and morphisms between categories. Categories were first introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in 1942 as a tool in the study of [[algebraic topology]].   
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Category theory is considered very powerful by some mathematicians, but is considered overly abstract and unproductive by other mathematicians.
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Category theory is considered very powerful by some mathematicians.  But is considered unnecessarily abstract by other mathematicians, so much so that they jokingly refer to it as "[[abstract nonsense]]".
 
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